Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

af_unix: fix use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor()

syzbot reported the following crash [1]

After releasing unix socket lock, u->oob_skb can be changed
by another thread. We must temporarily increase skb refcount
to make sure this other thread will not free the skb under us.

[1]

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in unix_stream_read_actor+0xa7/0xc0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2866
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88801f3b9cc4 by task syz-executor107/5297

CPU: 1 PID: 5297 Comm: syz-executor107 Not tainted 6.6.0-syzkaller-15910-gb8e3a87a627b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/09/2023
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
print_report+0xc4/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:475
kasan_report+0xda/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:588
unix_stream_read_actor+0xa7/0xc0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2866
unix_stream_recv_urg net/unix/af_unix.c:2587 [inline]
unix_stream_read_generic+0x19a5/0x2480 net/unix/af_unix.c:2666
unix_stream_recvmsg+0x189/0x1b0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2903
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1044 [inline]
sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x170 net/socket.c:1066
____sys_recvmsg+0x21f/0x5c0 net/socket.c:2803
___sys_recvmsg+0x115/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2845
__sys_recvmsg+0x114/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2875
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x110 arch/x86/entry/com...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-52772

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75bcfc188abf4fae9c1d5f5dc0a03540be602eef
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d179189eec426fe4801e4b91efa1889faed12700
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eae0b295ce16d8c8b4114c3037993191b4bb92f0
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/069a3ec329ff43e7869a3d94c62cd03203016bce
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b7b492615cf3017190f55444f7016812b66611d

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