# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54226"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:11:19.522Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:57:53.270Z"
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-2023-54226"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54226.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54226"
title: "af_unix: Fix data races around sk-\u003esk_shutdown."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Fix data races around sk-\u003esk_shutdown.\n\nKCSAN found a data race around sk-\u003esk_shutdown where unix_release_sock()\nand unix_shutdown() update it under unix_state_lock(), OTOH unix_poll()\nand unix_dgram_poll() read it locklessly.\n\nWe need to annotate the writes and reads with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE().\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_poll / unix_release_sock\n\nwrite to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 264 on cpu 0:\n unix_release_sock+0x75c/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:631\n unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1042\n __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653\n sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1397\n __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321\n ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349\n task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179\n resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204\n __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline]\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297\n do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nread to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 222 on cpu 1:\n unix_poll+0xa3/0x2a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:3170\n sock_poll+0xcf/0x2b0 net/socket.c:1385\n vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:88 [inline]\n ep_item_poll.isra.0+0x78/0xc0 fs/eventpoll.c:855\n ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1694 [inline]\n ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1823 [inline]\n do_epoll_wait+0x6c4/0xea0 fs/eventpoll.c:2258\n __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2270 [inline]\n __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2265 [inline]\n __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xcc/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2265\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nvalue changed: 0x00 -\u003e 0x03\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 1 PID: 222 Comm: dbus-broker Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-02330-gca6270c12e20 #2\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014"
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