CVE-2023-53445
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
18/09/2025
Last modified:
19/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net: qrtr: Fix a refcount bug in qrtr_recvmsg()<br />
<br />
Syzbot reported a bug as following:<br />
<br />
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.<br />
...<br />
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x17c/0x1f0 lib/refcount.c:25<br />
...<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
__refcount_add include/linux/refcount.h:199 [inline]<br />
__refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:250 [inline]<br />
refcount_inc include/linux/refcount.h:267 [inline]<br />
kref_get include/linux/kref.h:45 [inline]<br />
qrtr_node_acquire net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:202 [inline]<br />
qrtr_node_lookup net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:398 [inline]<br />
qrtr_send_resume_tx net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1003 [inline]<br />
qrtr_recvmsg+0x85f/0x990 net/qrtr/af_qrtr.c:1070<br />
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:1017 [inline]<br />
sock_recvmsg+0xe2/0x160 net/socket.c:1038<br />
qrtr_ns_worker+0x170/0x1700 net/qrtr/ns.c:688<br />
process_one_work+0x991/0x15c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2390<br />
worker_thread+0x669/0x1090 kernel/workqueue.c:2537<br />
<br />
It occurs in the concurrent scenario of qrtr_recvmsg() and<br />
qrtr_endpoint_unregister() as following:<br />
<br />
cpu0 cpu1<br />
qrtr_recvmsg qrtr_endpoint_unregister<br />
qrtr_send_resume_tx qrtr_node_release<br />
qrtr_node_lookup mutex_lock(&qrtr_node_lock)<br />
spin_lock_irqsave(&qrtr_nodes_lock, ) refcount_dec_and_test(&node->ref) [node->ref == 0]<br />
radix_tree_lookup [node != NULL] __qrtr_node_release<br />
qrtr_node_acquire spin_lock_irqsave(&qrtr_nodes_lock, )<br />
kref_get(&node->ref) [WARNING] ...<br />
mutex_unlock(&qrtr_node_lock)<br />
<br />
Use qrtr_node_lock to protect qrtr_node_lookup() implementation, this<br />
is actually improving the protection of node reference.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d807320000db0d0013372ad39b53e12d52f758
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48a07f6e00d305597396da4d7494b81cec05b9d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98a9cd82c541ef6cbdb829cd6c05cbbb471e373c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa95efa187b4114075f312b3c4680d050b56fdec
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ba5906c42089f8e1d0001b7b50a7940f086cbb