CVE-2023-53426

HIGH

Linux Kernel 5.15.33-5.15.131 - Use-After-Free in XSK Diag Interface

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xsk: Fix xsk_diag use-after-free error during socket cleanup Fix a use-after-free error that is possible if the xsk_diag interface is used after the socket has been unbound from the device. This can happen either due to the socket being closed or the device disappearing. In the early days of AF_XDP, the way we tested that a socket was not bound to a device was to simply check if the netdevice pointer in the xsk socket structure was NULL. Later, a better system was introduced by having an explicit state variable in the xsk socket struct. For example, the state of a socket that is on the way to being closed and has been unbound from the device is XSK_UNBOUND. The commit in the Fixes tag below deleted the old way of signalling that a socket is unbound, setting dev to NULL. This in the belief that all code using the old way had been exterminated. That was unfortunately not true as the xsk diagnostics code was still using the old way and thus does not work as intended when a socket is going down. Fix this by introducing a test against the state variable. If the socket is in the state XSK_UNBOUND, simply abort the diagnostic's netlink operation.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (16)
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 18b1ab7aa76bde181bdb1ab19a87fa9523c32f21 - 3e019d8a05a38abb5c85d4f1e85fda964610aa14
Linux/Linux 18b1ab7aa76bde181bdb1ab19a87fa9523c32f21 - 595931912357fa3507e522a7f8a0a76e423c23e4
Linux/Linux 18b1ab7aa76bde181bdb1ab19a87fa9523c32f21 - 6436973164ea5506a495f39e56be5aea375e7832
Linux/Linux 5.15.132 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.33 - 5.15.132
Linux/Linux 5.16.19 - 5.17
Linux/Linux 5.17.2 - 5.18
Linux/Linux 5.18
Linux/Linux 6.1.54 - 6.1.*
... and 6 more
Published Sep 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026