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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-52885" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-14T07:11:28.548Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:11:51.682Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52885" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52885.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52885" title: "SUNRPC: Fix UAF in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: Fix UAF in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready()\n\nAfter the listener svc_sock is freed, and before invoking svc_tcp_accept()\nfor the established child sock, there is a window that the newsock\nretaining a freed listener svc_sock in sk_user_data which cloning from\nparent. In the race window, if data is received on the newsock, we will\nobserve use-after-free report in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready().\n\nReproduce by two tasks:\n\n1. while :; do rpc.nfsd 0 ; rpc.nfsd; done\n2. while :; do echo \"\" | ncat -4 127.0.0.1 2049 ; done\n\nKASAN report:\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x1cf/0x1f0 [sunrpc]\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888139d96228 by task nc/102553\n CPU: 7 PID: 102553 Comm: nc Not tainted 6.3.0+ #18\n Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020\n Call Trace:\n \u003cIRQ\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x33/0x50\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x27/0x310\n print_report+0x3e/0x70\n kasan_report+0xae/0xe0\n svc_tcp_listen_data_ready+0x1cf/0x1f0 [sunrpc]\n tcp_data_queue+0x9f4/0x20e0\n tcp_rcv_established+0x666/0x1f60\n tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x51c/0x850\n tcp_v4_rcv+0x23fc/0x2e80\n ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x62/0x300\n ip_local_deliver_finish+0x267/0x350\n ip_local_deliver+0x18b/0x2d0\n ip_rcv+0x2fb/0x370\n __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x166/0x1b0\n process_backlog+0x24c/0x5e0\n __napi_poll+0xa2/0x500\n net_rx_action+0x854/0xc90\n __do_softirq+0x1bb/0x5de\n do_softirq+0xcb/0x100\n \u003c/IRQ\u003e\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ...\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 102371:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40\n kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x7b/0x90\n svc_setup_socket+0x52/0x4f0 [sunrpc]\n svc_addsock+0x20d/0x400 [sunrpc]\n __write_ports_addfd+0x209/0x390 [nfsd]\n write_ports+0x239/0x2c0 [nfsd]\n nfsctl_transaction_write+0xac/0x110 [nfsd]\n vfs_write+0x1c3/0xae0\n ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\n Freed by task 102551:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40\n kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30\n kasan_save_free_info+0x2a/0x50\n __kasan_slab_free+0x106/0x190\n __kmem_cache_free+0x133/0x270\n svc_xprt_free+0x1e2/0x350 [sunrpc]\n svc_xprt_destroy_all+0x25a/0x440 [sunrpc]\n nfsd_put+0x125/0x240 [nfsd]\n nfsd_svc+0x2cb/0x3c0 [nfsd]\n write_threads+0x1ac/0x2a0 [nfsd]\n nfsctl_transaction_write+0xac/0x110 [nfsd]\n vfs_write+0x1c3/0xae0\n ksys_write+0xed/0x1c0\n do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nFix the UAF by simply doing nothing in svc_tcp_listen_data_ready()\nif state != TCP_LISTEN, that will avoid dereferencing svsk for all\nchild socket." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7b8c2d06e437639694abe76978e915cfb73f428"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dfc896c4a75cb8cd7cb2dfd9b469cf1e3f004254"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"42725e5c1b181b757ba11d804443922982334d9b"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd5ec3ee52ce4b7e283cc11facfa420c297c8065"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fbf4ace39b2e4f3833236afbb2336edbafd75eee"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef047411887ff0845afd642d6a687819308e1a4e"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e1f989055622fd086c5dfb291fc72adf5660b6f"},{"version":"fa9251afc33c81606d70cfe91800a779096442ec","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc80fc2d4e39137869da3150ee169b40bf879287"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"4.14.322","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.291","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.251","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.188","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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