{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-54142", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-12-24T13:02:52.523Z", "datePublished": "2025-12-24T13:06:56.204Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:17:36.638Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:17:36.638Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().\n\nsyzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0]\n\nIt shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally.\n\nCommit e198987e7dd7 (\"gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage\") added lock_sock()\nand release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data,\nbut release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt.\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178\nWrite of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]\n print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462\n kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572\n check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline]\n kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187\n instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]\n atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]\n queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]\n do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]\n __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178\n spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline]\n release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526\n gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline]\n gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664\n gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728\n unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841\n rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline]\n rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365\n netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547\n __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nRIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d\nCode: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000\n \n\nAllocated by task 1483:\n kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45\n kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52\n __kasan_slab_alloc+0x\n---truncated---" } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The vulnerability is reached through local syscalls only — `socket()`/`setsockopt(SOL_UDP, UDP_ENCAP)` on a UDP socket plus `RTM_NEWLINK`/`RTM_DELLINK` messages on an AF_NETLINK socket. No network packet reaches the vulnerable code.\nAC:L - The trigger is a fully deterministic, race-free sequence: attaching a UDP socket to a gtp link, zeroing `up->encap_type` via unprivileged `setsockopt(UDP_ENCAP, 0)` so `udpv6_destroy_sock()` skips the `encap_destroy` callback, closing the fd, then deleting the link — guaranteeing GTP holds the last reference when `sock_put()` runs. The attacker also fully controls heap grooming for the reclaim.\nPR:L - The rtnetlink gates are `netlink_net_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN)` and `netlink_ns_capable(skb, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)`, which are user-namespace scoped, so any unprivileged local user obtains them via `unshare -Urn`; `gtp_net_ops` is a pernet subsys so gtp links are creatable in that netns, and `MODULE_ALIAS_RTNL_LINK(\"gtp\")` lets the same request autoload gtp.ko. The `UDP_ENCAP` setsockopt step requires no privileges at all.\nUI:N - The entire sequence is performed by the attacker's own process; no victim action, no administrator configuration, and no interaction with any other user is needed.\nS:U - The freed `struct sock` and the resulting corruption are both within the kernel's own security authority, with no crossing of a VM, IOMMU, or hypervisor boundary.\nC:H - The use-after-free on a 1344-byte UDPv6 `struct sock` lets an attacker who reclaims the object have the kernel read attacker-influenced pointers (`sk_prot`, `sk_backlog.head/tail`, `sk_lock.wq`) and dereference them, yielding kernel memory disclosure and full read primitives.\nI:H - `release_sock()` on the freed object performs an indirect call through `sk->sk_prot->release_cb` and, via `__release_sock()`, through `sk->sk_backlog_rcv`, plus waitqueue list-pointer writes — giving control-flow hijack and arbitrary-write primitives once the slab object is reclaimed, i.e. local privilege escalation.\nA:H - Even without exploitation the bug is a guaranteed slab use-after-free — a spinlock cmpxchg and list operations on freed memory — reliably producing kernel oops, slab corruption, or hang, and it is repeatable at will by an unprivileged local user." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/net/gtp.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "01f3c64e405ab3d25887d080a103ad76f30661d2", "lessThan": "d38039697184aacff1cf576e14ef583112fdefef", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "e117a04133c673cc54292e12086a8177cd9bd4a4", "lessThan": "e5aa6d829831a55a693dbaeb58f8d22ba7f2b3e6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "e198987e7dd7d3645a53875151cd6f8fc425b706", "lessThan": "9c9662e2512b5e4ee7b03108802c5222e0fa77a4", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": 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"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17d6b6354f0025b7c10a56da783fd0cbb3819c5d" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dae6095bdb24f537b4798ffd9201515b97bac94e" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58fa341327fdb4bdf92597fd8796a9abc8d20ea3" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce3aee7114c575fab32a5e9e939d4bbb3dcca79f" } ], "title": "gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }