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CVE-2023-53698

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

xsk: fix refcount underflow in error path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: fix refcount underflow in error path Fix a refcount underflow problem reported by syzbot that can happen when a system is running out of memory. If xp_alloc_tx_descs() fails, and it can only fail due to not having enough memory, then the error path is triggered. In this error path, the refcount of the pool is decremented as it has incremented before. However, the reference to the pool in the socket was not nulled. This means that when the socket is closed later, the socket teardown logic will think that there is a pool attached to the socket and try to decrease the refcount again, leading to a refcount underflow. I chose this fix as it involved adding just a single line. Another option would have been to move xp_get_pool() and the assignment of xs->pool to after the if-statement and using xs_umem->pool instead of xs->pool in the whole if-statement resulting in somewhat simpler code, but this would have led to much more churn in the code base perhaps making it harder to backport.

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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
f7019562f142bc041f9cde63af338d1886585923affectedgit789fcd94c9cac133dd4d96e193188661aca9f6c3UnavailableNone listed
ba3beec2ec1d3b4fd8672ca6e781dac4b3267f6eaffectedgit15b453cf7348973217558235b9ece2ee5fea6777UnavailableNone listed
ba3beec2ec1d3b4fd8672ca6e781dac4b3267f6eaffectedgit3e7722c31d4167eb7f3ffd35aba52cab69b79072UnavailableNone listed
ba3beec2ec1d3b4fd8672ca6e781dac4b3267f6eaffectedgit85c2c79a07302fe68a1ad5cc449458cc559e314dUnavailableNone listed
9f0c8a9d4ef1b9ebee0e4ac2495fe790727044aaaffectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
5.15.47affectedsemver5.15.127UnavailableNone listed
5.17.15affectedsemver5.18UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
5.18affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.18UnavailableNone listed
5.15.127unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.46unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.4.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.4.*None listed
6.5unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed