CVE-2023-52438
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix use-after-free in shinker's callback The mmap read lock is used during the shrinker's callback, which means that using alloc->vma pointer isn't safe as it can race with munmap(). As of commit dd2283f2605e ("mm: mmap: zap pages with read mmap_sem in munmap") the mmap lock is downgraded after the vma has been isolated. I was able to reproduce this issue by manually adding some delays and triggering page reclaiming through the shrinker's debug sysfs. The following KASAN report confirms the UAF: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8 Read of size 8 at addr ffff356ed50e50f0 by task bash/478 CPU: 1 PID: 478 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.6.0-rc5-00055-g1c8b86a3799f-dirty #70 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: zap_page_range_single+0x470/0x4b8 binder_alloc_free_page+0x608/0xadc __list_lru_walk_one+0x130/0x3b0 list_lru_walk_node+0xc4/0x22c binder_shrink_scan+0x108/0x1dc shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x2b4/0x500 full_proxy_write+0xd4/0x140 vfs_write+0x1ac/0x758 ksys_write+0xf0/0x1dc __arm64_sys_write+0x6c/0x9c Allocated by task 492: kmem_cache_alloc+0x130/0x368 vm_area_alloc+0x2c/0x190 mmap_region+0x258/0x18bc do_mmap+0x694/0xa60 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x170/0x29c ksys_mmap_pgoff+0x290/0x3a0 __arm64_sys_mmap+0xcc/0x144 Freed by task 491: kmem_cache_free+0x17c/0x3c8 vm_area_free_rcu_cb+0x74/0x98 rcu_core+0xa38/0x26d4 rcu_core_si+0x10/0x1c __do_softirq+0x2fc/0xd24 Last potentially related work creation: __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6c/0xba0 call_rcu+0x10/0x1c vm_area_free+0x18/0x24 remove_vma+0xe4/0x118 do_vmi_align_munmap.isra.0+0x718/0xb5c do_vmi_munmap+0xdc/0x1fc __vm_munmap+0x10c/0x278 __arm64_sys_munmap+0x58/0x7c Fix this issue by performing instead a vma_lookup() which will fail to find the vma that was isolated before the mmap lock downgrade. Note that this option has better performance than upgrading to a mmap write lock which would increase contention. Plus, mmap_write_trylock() has been recently removed anyway.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | a53e15e592b4dcc91c3a3b8514e484a0bdbc53a3 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | c8c1158ffb007197f31f9d9170cf13e4f34cbb5c | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | 8ad4d580e8aff8de2a4d57c5930fcc29f1ffd4a6 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | 9fa04c93f24138747807fe75b5591bb680098f56 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | a49087ab93508b60d9b8add91707a22dda832869 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | e074686e993ff1be5f21b085a3b1b4275ccd5727 | Unavailable | None listed |
| dd2283f2605e3b3e9c61bcae844b34f2afa4813f | affected | git | 3f489c2067c5824528212b0fc18b28d51332d906 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.20 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.20 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.4.268 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.4.* | None listed |
| 5.10.209 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.148 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.74 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.13 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.7.1 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.7.* | None listed |
| 6.8 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |