CVE-2023-53426

Technical 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 usin

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References