Bug 2363766 (CVE-2023-53088) - CVE-2023-53088 kernel: mptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown
Summary: CVE-2023-53088 kernel: mptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53088
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-02 16:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-05 05:30 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-02 16:04:53 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown

As reported by Christoph after having refactored the passive
socket initialization, the mptcp listener shutdown path is prone
to an UaF issue.

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0
  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88810cb23098 by task syz-executor731/1266

  CPU: 1 PID: 1266 Comm: syz-executor731 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 #6
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91
   print_report+0x16a/0x46f
   kasan_report+0xad/0x130
   kasan_check_range+0x14a/0x1a0
   _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0
   subflow_error_report+0x6d/0x110
   sk_error_report+0x3b/0x190
   tcp_disconnect+0x138c/0x1aa0
   inet_child_forget+0x6f/0x2e0
   inet_csk_listen_stop+0x209/0x1060
   __mptcp_close_ssk+0x52d/0x610
   mptcp_destroy_common+0x165/0x640
   mptcp_destroy+0x13/0x80
   __mptcp_destroy_sock+0xe7/0x270
   __mptcp_close+0x70e/0x9b0
   mptcp_close+0x2b/0x150
   inet_release+0xe9/0x1f0
   __sock_release+0xd2/0x280
   sock_close+0x15/0x20
   __fput+0x252/0xa20
   task_work_run+0x169/0x250
   exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x113/0x120
   syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40
   do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

The msk grace period can legitly expire in between the last
reference count dropped in mptcp_subflow_queue_clean() and
the later eventual access in inet_csk_listen_stop()

After the previous patch we don't need anymore special-casing
msk listener socket cleanup: the mptcp worker will process each
of the unaccepted msk sockets.

Just drop the now unnecessary code.

Please note this commit depends on the two parent ones:

  mptcp: refactor passive socket initialization
  mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-05 05:19:29 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050219-CVE-2023-53088-501c@gregkh/T


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