Bug 2420379 (CVE-2023-53825) - CVE-2023-53825 kernel: kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg()
Summary: CVE-2023-53825 kernel: kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53825
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-12 09:46 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:06:59 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg().

syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720
("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()") suppressed it by
updating kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb if partial data is copied so that the
following sendmsg() will resume from the skb.

However, we cannot know how many bytes were copied when we get the error.
Thus, we could mess up the MSG_MORE queue.

When kcm_sendmsg() fails for SOCK_DGRAM, we should purge the queue as we
do so for UDP by udp_flush_pending_frames().

Even without this change, when the error occurred, the following sendmsg()
resumed from a wrong skb and the queue was messed up.  However, we have
yet to get such a report, and only syzkaller stumbled on it.  So, this
can be changed safely.

Note this does not change SOCK_SEQPACKET behaviour.


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