CVE-2023-53489
Estado: AnalizadaMedia (5.5)—
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.
syzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of an UDP socket and ZEROCOPY skbs. We can reproduce the problem with these sequences:
sendmsg() calls msg_zerocopy_alloc(), which allocates a skb, sets skb->cb->ubuf.refcnt to 1, and calls sock_hold(). Here, struct ubuf_info_msgzc indirectly holds a refcnt of the socket. When the skb is sent, __skb_tstamp_tx() clones it and puts the clone into the socket's error queue with the TX timestamp.
When the original skb is received locally, skb_copy_ubufs() calls skb_unclone(), and pskb_expand_head() increments skb->cb->ubuf.refcnt.
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This additional count is decremented while freeing the skb, but struct ubuf_info_msgzc still has a refcnt, so __msg_zerocopy_callback() is not called.
The last refcnt is not released unless we retrieve the TX timestamped skb by recvmsg(). Since we clear the error queue in inet_sock_destruct() after the socket's refcnt reaches 0, there is a circular dependency. If we close() the socket holding such skbs, we never call sock_put() and leak the count, sk, and skb.
TCP has the same problem, and commit e0c8bccd40fc ("net: stream: purge sk_error_queue in sk_stream_kill_queues()") tried to fix it by calling skb_queue_purge() during close(). However, there is a small chance that skb queued in a qdisc or device could be put into the error queue after the skb_queue_purge() call.
In __skb_tstamp_tx(), the cloned skb should not have a reference to the ubuf to remove the circular dependency, but skb_clone() does not call skb_copy_ubufs() for zerocopy skb. So, we need to call skb_orphan_frags_rx() for the cloned skb to call skb_copy_ubufs().
Detalles técnicos trazas, registros y código del informe original
sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE)
sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, 1)
sk.sendto(b'', MSG_ZEROCOPY, ('127.0.0.1', 53))
sk.close()
[0]:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88800c6d2d00 (size 1152):
comm "syz-executor392", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cd af e8 81 00 00 00 00 ................
02 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............
backtrace:
[<0000000055636812>] sk_prot_alloc+0x64/0x2a0 net/core/sock.c:2024
[<0000000054d77b7a>] sk_alloc+0x3b/0x800 net/core/sock.c:2083
[<0000000066f3c7e0>] inet_create net/ipv4/af_inet.c:319 [inline]
[<0000000066f3c7e0>] inet_create+0x31e/0xe40 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:245
[<000000009b83af97>] __sock_create+0x2ab/0x550 net/socket.c:1515
[<00000000b9b11231>] sock_create net/socket.c:1566 [inline]
[<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1603 [inline]
[<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1588 [inline]
[<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket+0x138/0x250 net/socket.c:1636
[<000000004fb45142>] __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1649 [inline]
[<000000004fb45142>] __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1647 [inline]
[<000000004fb45142>] __x64_sys_socket+0x73/0xb0 net/socket.c:1647
[<0000000066999e0e>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
[<0000000066999e0e>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
[<0000000017f238c1>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888017633a00 (size 240):
comm "syz-executor392", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2d 6d 0c 80 88 ff ff .........-m.....
backtrace:
[<000000002b1c4368>] __alloc_skb+0x229/0x320 net/core/skbuff.c:497
[<00000000143579a6>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1265 [inline]
[<00000000143579a6>] sock_omalloc+0xaa/0x190 net/core/sock.c:2596
[<00000000be626478>] msg_zerocopy_alloc net/core/skbuff.c:1294 [inline]
[<00000000be626478>]
---truncated---CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
- Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-401
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f69c086b20e27763af28145981435423f088268
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/230a5ed7d813fb516de81d23f09d7506753e41e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281072fb2a7294cde7acbf5375b879f40a8001b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30290f210ba7426ff7592fe2eb4114b1b5bad219
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/426384dd4980040651536fef5feac4dcc4d7ee4e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43e4197dd5f6b474a8b16f8b6a42cd45cf4f9d1a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50749f2dd6854a41830996ad302aef2ffaf011d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/602fa8af44fd55a58f9e94eb673e8adad2c6cc46
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb52e7f24c1d01a536a847dff0d1d95889cc3b5c
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