CVE-2023-53445 (GCVE-0-2023-53445)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-18 16:04 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:14
VLAI
Title
net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg() Syzbot reported a bug as following: refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free. ... RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1f0 lib/refcount.c:25 ... Call Trace: <TASK> __refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:199 [inline] __refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline] refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline] kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline] qrtr_node_acquire net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:202 [inline] qrtr_node_lookup net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:398 [inline] qrtr_send_resume_tx net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1003 [inline] qrtr_recvmsg+0x85f/0x990 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1070 sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline] sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x160 net/socket.c:1038 qrtr_ns_worker+0x170/0x1700 net/qrtr/ns.c:688 process_one_work+0x991/0x15c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2390 worker_thread+0x669/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2537 It occurs in the concurrent scenario of qrtr_recvmsg() and qrtr_endpoint_unregister() as following: cpu0 cpu1 qrtr_recvmsg qrtr_endpoint_unregister qrtr_send_resume_tx qrtr_node_release qrtr_node_lookup mutex_lock(&qrtr_node_lock) spin_lock_irqsave(&qrtr_nodes_lock, ) refcount_dec_and_test(&node->ref) [node->ref == 0] radix_tree_lookup [node != NULL] __qrtr_node_release qrtr_node_acquire spin_lock_irqsave(&qrtr_nodes_lock, ) kref_get(&node->ref) [WARNING] ... mutex_unlock(&qrtr_node_lock) Use qrtr_node_lock to protect qrtr_node_lookup() implementation, this is actually improving the protection of node reference.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 19:19 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0a7e0d0ef05440db03c3199e84d228db943b237f , < 98a9cd82c541ef6cbdb829cd6c05cbbb471e373c (git)
Affected: 0a7e0d0ef05440db03c3199e84d228db943b237f , < b9ba5906c42089f8e1d0001b7b50a7940f086cbb (git)
Affected: 0a7e0d0ef05440db03c3199e84d228db943b237f , < aa95efa187b4114075f312b3c4680d050b56fdec (git)
Affected: 0a7e0d0ef05440db03c3199e84d228db943b237f , < 48a07f6e00d305597396da4d7494b81cec05b9d3 (git)
Affected: 0a7e0d0ef05440db03c3199e84d228db943b237f , < 44d807320000db0d0013372ad39b53e12d52f758 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.178 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.107 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.24 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.11 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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