{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53489","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.  syzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of an UDP socket and ZEROCOPY skbs.  We can reproduce the problem with these sequences:    sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)   sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE)   sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, 1)   sk.sendto(b'', MSG_ZEROCOPY, ('127.0.0.1', 53))   sk.close()  sendmsg() calls msg_zerocopy_alloc(), which allocates a skb, sets skb-\u003ecb-\u003eubuf.refcnt to 1, and calls sock_hold().  Here, struct ubuf_info_msgzc indirectly holds a refcnt of the socket.  When the skb is sent, __skb_tstamp_tx() clones it and puts the clone into the socket's error queue with the TX timestamp.  When the original skb is received locally, skb_copy_ubufs() calls skb_unclone(), and pskb_expand_head() increments skb-\u003ecb-\u003eubuf.refcnt. This additional count is decremented while freeing the skb, but struct ubuf_info_msgzc still has a refcnt, so __msg_zerocopy_callback() is not called.  The last refcnt is not released unless we retrieve the TX timestamped skb by recvmsg().  Since we clear the error queue in inet_sock_destruct() after the socket's refcnt reaches 0, there is a circular dependency. If we close() the socket holding such skbs, we never call sock_put() and leak the count, sk, and skb.  TCP has the same problem, and commit e0c8bccd40fc (\"net: stream: purge sk_error_queue in sk_stream_kill_queues()\") tried to fix it by calling skb_queue_purge() during close().  However, there is a small chance that skb queued in a qdisc or device could be put into the error queue after the skb_queue_purge() call.  In __skb_tstamp_tx(), the cloned skb should not have a reference to the ubuf to remove the circular dependency, but skb_clone() does not call skb_copy_ubufs() for zerocopy skb.  So, we need to call skb_orphan_frags_rx() for the cloned skb to call skb_copy_ubufs().  [0]: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88800c6d2d00 (size 1152):   comm \"syz-executor392\", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)   hex dump (first 32 bytes):     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cd af e8 81 00 00 00 00  ................     02 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ...@............   backtrace:     [\u003c0000000055636812\u003e] sk_prot_alloc+0x64/0x2a0 net/core/sock.c:2024     [\u003c0000000054d77b7a\u003e] sk_alloc+0x3b/0x800 net/core/sock.c:2083     [\u003c0000000066f3c7e0\u003e] inet_create net/ipv4/af_inet.c:319 [inline]     [\u003c0000000066f3c7e0\u003e] inet_create+0x31e/0xe40 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:245     [\u003c000000009b83af97\u003e] __sock_create+0x2ab/0x550 net/socket.c:1515     [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] sock_create net/socket.c:1566 [inline]     [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1603 [inline]     [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1588 [inline]     [\u003c00000000b9b11231\u003e] __sys_socket+0x138/0x250 net/socket.c:1636     [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1649 [inline]     [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1647 [inline]     [\u003c000000004fb45142\u003e] __x64_sys_socket+0x73/0xb0 net/socket.c:1647     [\u003c0000000066999e0e\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]     [\u003c0000000066999e0e\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80     [\u003c0000000017f238c1\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd  BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888017633a00 (size 240):   comm \"syz-executor392\", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s)   hex dump (first 32 bytes):     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2d 6d 0c 80 88 ff ff  .........-m.....   backtrace:     [\u003c000000002b1c4368\u003e] __alloc_skb+0x229/0x320 net/core/skbuff.c:497     [\u003c00000000143579a6\u003e] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1265 [inline]     [\u003c00000000143579a6\u003e] sock_omalloc+0xaa/0x190 net/core/sock.c:2596     [\u003c00000000be626478\u003e] msg_zerocopy_alloc net/core/skbuff.c:1294 [inline]     [\u003c00000000be626478\u003e] ---truncated---","modified":"2026-09-15T09:02:51.432287731Z","published":"2025-10-01T12:15:51.950Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-53489"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53489"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.37-1"}]}],"versions":["6.1.27-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53489.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53489.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53489.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}