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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53489"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:45:41.304Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:58.719Z"
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-2023-53489"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53489.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53489"
title: "tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.\n\nsyzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of an UDP socket and ZEROCOPY\nskbs.  We can reproduce the problem with these sequences:\n\n  sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)\n  sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE)\n  sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, 1)\n  sk.sendto(b'', MSG_ZEROCOPY, ('127.0.0.1', 53))\n  sk.close()\n\nsendmsg() calls msg_zerocopy_alloc(), which allocates a skb, sets\nskb-\u003ecb-\u003eubuf.refcnt to 1, and calls sock_hold().  Here, struct\nubuf_info_msgzc indirectly holds a refcnt of the socket.  When the\nskb is sent, __skb_tstamp_tx() clones it and puts the clone into\nthe socket's error queue with the TX timestamp.\n\nWhen the original skb is received locally, skb_copy_ubufs() calls\nskb_unclone(), and pskb_expand_head() increments skb-\u003ecb-\u003eubuf.refcnt.\nThis additional count is decremented while freeing the skb, but struct\nubuf_info_msgzc still has a refcnt, so __msg_zerocopy_callback() is\nnot called.\n\nThe last refcnt is not released unless we retrieve the TX timestamped\nskb by recvmsg().  Since we clear the error queue in inet_sock_destruct()\nafter the socket's refcnt reaches 0, there is a circular dependency.\nIf we close() the socket holding such skbs, we never call sock_put()\nand leak the count, sk, and skb.\n\nTCP has the same problem, and commit e0c8bccd40fc (\"net: stream:\npurge sk_error_queue in sk_stream_kill_queues()\") tried to fix it\nby calling skb_queue_purge() during close().  However, there is a\nsmall chance that skb queued in a qdisc or device could be put\ninto the error queue after the skb_queue_purge() call.\n\nIn __skb_tstamp_tx(), the cloned skb should not have a reference\nto the ubuf to remove the circular dependency, but skb_clone() does\nnot call skb_copy_ubufs() for zerocopy skb.  So, we need to call\nskb_orphan_frags_rx() for the cloned skb to call skb_copy_ubufs().\n\n[0]:\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff88800c6d2d00 (size 1152):\n  comm \"syz-executor392\", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cd af e8 81 00 00 00 00  ................\n    02 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...@............\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c0000000055636812\u003e] sk_prot_alloc+0x64/0x2a0 net/core/sock.c:2024\n    [\u003c0000000054d77b7a\u003e] sk_alloc+0x3b/0x800 net/core/sock.c:2083\n    [\u003c0000000066f3c7e0\u003e] inet_create net/ipv4/af_inet.c:319 [inline]\n    [\u003c0000000066f3c7e0\u003e] inet_create+0x31e/0xe40 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:245\n    [\u003c000000009b83af97\u003e] __sock_create+0x2ab/0x550 net/socket.c:1515\n    [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] sock_create net/socket.c:1566 [inline]\n    [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1603 [inline]\n    [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1588 [inline]\n    [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket+0x138/0x250 net/socket.c:1636\n    [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1649 [inline]\n    [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1647 [inline]\n    [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __x64_sys_socket+0x73/0xb0 net/socket.c:1647\n    [\u003c0000000066999e0e\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n    [\u003c0000000066999e0e\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n    [\u003c0000000017f238c1\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888017633a00 (size 240):\n  comm \"syz-executor392\", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2d 6d 0c 80 88 ff ff  .........-m.....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000002b1c4368\u003e] __alloc_skb+0x229/0x320 net/core/skbuff.c:497\n    [\u003c00000000143579a6\u003e] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1265 [inline]\n    [\u003c00000000143579a6\u003e] sock_omalloc+0xaa/0x190 net/core/sock.c:2596\n    [\u003c00000000be626478\u003e] msg_zerocopy_alloc net/core/skbuff.c:1294 [inline]\n    [\u003c00000000be626478\u003e]\n---truncated---"
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