CVE-2023-53204 (GCVE-0-2023-53204)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-15 14:21 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.
user->unix_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock),
but too_many_unix_fds() reads it locklessly.
Let's annotate the write/read accesses to user->unix_inflight.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_attach_fds / unix_inflight
write to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44798 on cpu 1:
unix_inflight+0x157/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:66
unix_attach_fds+0x147/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:123
unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]
unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
__sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
read to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44814 on cpu 0:
too_many_unix_fds net/unix/scm.c:101 [inline]
unix_attach_fds+0x54/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:110
unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]
unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]
unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748
____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494
___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548
__sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
value changed: 0x000000000000000c -> 0x000000000000000d
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 0 PID: 44814 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-11989-g6843306689af #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < df97b5ea9f3ac9308c3a633524dab382cd59d9e5
(git)
Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < 03d133dfbcec9d439729cc64706c7eb6d1663a24 (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < adcf4e069358cdee8593663650ea447215a1c49e (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < b401d7e485b0a234cf8fe9a6ae99dbcd20863138 (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < 9151ed4b006125cba7c06c79df504340ea4e9386 (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < b9cdbb38e030fc2fe97fe27b54cbb6b4fbff250f (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < ac92f239a079678a035c0faad9089354a874aede (git) Affected: 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 , < 0bc36c0650b21df36fbec8136add83936eaf0607 (git) Affected: a5a6cf8c405e826ff7ed1308dde72560c0ed4854 (git) Affected: df87da0783c4492b944badfea9d5c3c56b834697 (git) Affected: 3d024dcef2548028e9f9b7876a544e6e0af00175 (git) Affected: aa51d1c24ec3b6605f7cc7ef500c96cd71d7ef90 (git) Affected: a5b9e44af8d3edaf49d14a91cc519a9fba439e67 (git) Affected: dc6b0ec667f67d4768e72c1b7f1bbc14ea52379c (git) Affected: 9b8b611fe0f86f07a4ff4a5f3bcb0ea7ceb7da3b (git) Affected: 5e226f9689d90ad8ab21b4a969ae3058777f0aff (git) Affected: 3.2.78 , < 3.3 (semver) Affected: 3.10.96 , < 3.11 (semver) Affected: 3.12.57 , < 3.13 (semver) Affected: 3.14.60 , < 3.15 (semver) Affected: 3.18.27 , < 3.19 (semver) Affected: 4.1.17 , < 4.2 (semver) Affected: 4.3.5 , < 4.4 (semver) Affected: 4.4.1 , < 4.5 (semver) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.5 (semver) Unaffected: 4.14.326 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 4.19.295 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.54 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.5.4 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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