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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53296" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:28.519Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:12.034Z" 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-2023-53296" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53296.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53296" title: "sctp: check send stream number after wait_for_sndbuf" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsctp: check send stream number after wait_for_sndbuf\n\nThis patch fixes a corner case where the asoc out stream count may change\nafter wait_for_sndbuf.\n\nWhen the main thread in the client starts a connection, if its out stream\ncount is set to N while the in stream count in the server is set to N - 2,\nanother thread in the client keeps sending the msgs with stream number\nN - 1, and waits for sndbuf before processing INIT_ACK.\n\nHowever, after processing INIT_ACK, the out stream count in the client is\nshrunk to N - 2, the same to the in stream count in the server. The crash\noccurs when the thread waiting for sndbuf is awake and sends the msg in a\nnon-existing stream(N - 1), the call trace is as below:\n\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n sctp_cmd_send_msg net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1114 [inline]\n sctp_cmd_interpreter net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1777 [inline]\n sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1199 [inline]\n sctp_do_sm+0x197d/0x5310 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1170\n sctp_primitive_SEND+0x9f/0xc0 net/sctp/primitive.c:163\n sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x10eb/0x1a30 net/sctp/socket.c:1868\n sctp_sendmsg+0x8d4/0x1d90 net/sctp/socket.c:2026\n inet_sendmsg+0x9d/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:825\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:722 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0xde/0x190 net/socket.c:745\n\nThe fix is to add an unlikely check for the send stream number after the\nthread wakes up from the wait_for_sndbuf." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9346a1a21142357972a6f466ba6275ddc54b04ac"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0443fff49d6352160c200064156c25898bd9f58c"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4b6dfad41aaae9e36e44327b18d5cf4b20dd2ce"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"667eb99cf7c15fe5b0ecefe75cf658e20ef20c9f"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d2128636b303aa9cf065055402ee6697409a8837"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a615e7270318fa0b98bf1ff38daf6cf52d840312"},{"version":"5bbbbe32a43199c2b9ea5ea66fab6241c64beb51","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2584024b23552c00d95b50255e47bd18d306d31a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.281","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","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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