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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54112" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:06:34.854Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:55:42.470Z" 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-2023-54112" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54112.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54112" title: "kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()\n\nsyzbot reported a memory leak like below:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810b088c00 (size 240):\n comm \"syz-executor186\", pid 5012, jiffies 4294943306 (age 13.680s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 89 08 0b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff83e5d5ff\u003e] __alloc_skb+0x1ef/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:634\n [\u003cffffffff84606e59\u003e] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1289 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff84606e59\u003e] kcm_sendmsg+0x269/0x1050 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:815\n [\u003cffffffff83e479c6\u003e] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff83e479c6\u003e] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0xb0 net/socket.c:748\n [\u003cffffffff83e47f55\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0x365/0x470 net/socket.c:2494\n [\u003cffffffff83e4c389\u003e] ___sys_sendmsg+0xc9/0x130 net/socket.c:2548\n [\u003cffffffff83e4c536\u003e] __sys_sendmsg+0xa6/0x120 net/socket.c:2577\n [\u003cffffffff84ad7bb8\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n [\u003cffffffff84ad7bb8\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x38/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n [\u003cffffffff84c0008b\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nIn kcm_sendmsg(), kcm_tx_msg(head)-\u003elast_skb is used as a cursor to append\nnewly allocated skbs to 'head'. If some bytes are copied, an error occurred,\nand jumped to out_error label, 'last_skb' is left unmodified. A later\nkcm_sendmsg() will use an obsoleted 'last_skb' reference, corrupting the\n'head' frag_list and causing the leak.\n\nThis patch fixes this issue by properly updating the last allocated skb in\n'last_skb'." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8dc7eb757b1652b82725f32e0c89a1e9f6c0e13b"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5e5554389397e98fafb9efe395d8b4830dd5f042"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"479c71cda14b3c3a6515773faa39055333eaa2b7"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33db24ad811b3576a0c2f8862506763f2be925b0"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"97275339c34cfbccd65e87bc38fd910ae66c48ba"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"16989de75497574b5fafd174c0c233d5a86858b7"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af8085e0fc3207ecbf8b9e7a635c790e36d058c6"},{"version":"ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c821a88bd720b0046433173185fd841a100d44ad"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.6"},{"version":"4.14.326","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.295","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.257","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.132","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","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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