CVE-2023-53133
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
02/05/2025
Last modified:
10/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
bpf, sockmap: Fix an infinite loop error when len is 0 in tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser()<br />
<br />
When the buffer length of the recvmsg system call is 0, we got the<br />
flollowing soft lockup problem:<br />
<br />
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 27s! [a.out:6149]<br />
CPU: 3 PID: 6149 Comm: a.out Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.2.0+ #30<br />
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014<br />
RIP: 0010:remove_wait_queue+0xb/0xc0<br />
Code: 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 57 56 41 55 41 54 55 48 89 fd 53 48 89 f3 4c 8d 6b 18 4c 8d 73 20<br />
RSP: 0018:ffff88811b5978b8 EFLAGS: 00000246<br />
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88811a7d3780 RCX: ffffffffb7a4d768<br />
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffff88811b597908 RDI: ffff888115408040<br />
RBP: 1ffff110236b2f1b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88811a7d37e7<br />
R10: ffffed10234fa6fc R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff88811179b800<br />
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88811a7d38a8 R15: ffff88811a7d37e0<br />
FS: 00007f6fb5398740(0000) GS:ffff888237180000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 0000000020000000 CR3: 000000010b6ba002 CR4: 0000000000370ee0<br />
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000<br />
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
tcp_msg_wait_data+0x279/0x2f0<br />
tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser+0x3c6/0x490<br />
inet_recvmsg+0x280/0x290<br />
sock_recvmsg+0xfc/0x120<br />
____sys_recvmsg+0x160/0x3d0<br />
___sys_recvmsg+0xf0/0x180<br />
__sys_recvmsg+0xea/0x1a0<br />
do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc<br />
<br />
The logic in tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser is as follows:<br />
<br />
msg_bytes_ready:<br />
copied = sk_msg_recvmsg(sk, psock, msg, len, flags);<br />
if (!copied) {<br />
wait data;<br />
goto msg_bytes_ready;<br />
}<br />
<br />
In this case, "copied" always is 0, the infinite loop occurs.<br />
<br />
According to the Linux system call man page, 0 should be returned in this<br />
case. Therefore, in tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser(), if the length is 0, directly<br />
return. Also modify several other functions with the same problem.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.20 (including) | 5.15.103 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 5.16 (including) | 6.1.20 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.2 (including) | 6.2.7 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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