CVE-2023-53825
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg(). syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720 ("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()")…
Does this matter?
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg(). syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720 ("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()") suppressed it by updating kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb if partial data is copied so that the following sendmsg() will resume from the skb. However, we cannot know how many bytes were copied when we get the error. Thus, we could mess up the MSG_MORE queue. When kcm_sendmsg() fails for SOCK_DGRAM, we should purge the queue as we do so for UDP by udp_flush_pending_frames(). Even without this change, when the error occurred, the following sendmsg() resumed from a wrong skb and the queue was messed up. However, we have yet to get such a report, and only syzkaller stumbled on it. So, this can be changed safely. Note this does not change SOCK_SEQPACKET behaviour.
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- EPSS
- 0.26% probability · 17th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce8362b4ac6b8e65fd04a22ea37ec776ee1ec5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21b467735b0888a8daa048f83d3b9b50fdab71ce
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e18493c421428a936946c452461b8e979088f17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55d2e7c1ab8eaa7b62575b8a4194132795d1f9fc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/992b2ac783aad360b98ed9d4686e86176a20f6f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a22730b1b4bf437c6bbfdeff5feddf54be4aeada
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b8f380b0a041ee6a84fdac14127d8fe1dcad7b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5b28ce127a690f3acc49a6a342e6c9442c9edd6
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.