CVE-2023-53685

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
07/10/2025
Last modified:
08/10/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> tun: Fix memory leak for detached NAPI queue.<br /> <br /> syzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of sk and skb related to the TUN<br /> device with no repro, but we can reproduce it easily with:<br /> <br /> struct ifreq ifr = {}<br /> int fd_tun, fd_tmp;<br /> char buf[4] = {};<br /> <br /> fd_tun = openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_WRONLY, 0);<br /> ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TUN | IFF_NAPI | IFF_MULTI_QUEUE;<br /> ioctl(fd_tun, TUNSETIFF, &amp;ifr);<br /> <br /> ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_DETACH_QUEUE;<br /> ioctl(fd_tun, TUNSETQUEUE, &amp;ifr);<br /> <br /> fd_tmp = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 0);<br /> ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_UP;<br /> ioctl(fd_tmp, SIOCSIFFLAGS, &amp;ifr);<br /> <br /> write(fd_tun, buf, sizeof(buf));<br /> close(fd_tun);<br /> <br /> If we enable NAPI and multi-queue on a TUN device, we can put skb into<br /> tfile-&gt;sk.sk_write_queue after the queue is detached. We should prevent<br /> it by checking tfile-&gt;detached before queuing skb.<br /> <br /> Note this must be done under tfile-&gt;sk.sk_write_queue.lock because write()<br /> and ioctl(IFF_DETACH_QUEUE) can run concurrently. Otherwise, there would<br /> be a small race window:<br /> <br /> write() ioctl(IFF_DETACH_QUEUE)<br /> `- tun_get_user `- __tun_detach<br /> |- if (tfile-&gt;detached) |- tun_disable_queue<br /> | `-&gt; false | `- tfile-&gt;detached = tun<br /> | `- tun_queue_purge<br /> |- spin_lock_bh(&amp;queue-&gt;lock)<br /> `- __skb_queue_tail(queue, skb)<br /> <br /> Another solution is to call tun_queue_purge() when closing and<br /> reattaching the detached queue, but it could paper over another<br /> problems. Also, we do the same kind of test for IFF_NAPI_FRAGS.<br /> <br /> [0]:<br /> unreferenced object 0xffff88801edbc800 (size 2048):<br /> comm "syz-executor.1", pid 33269, jiffies 4295743834 (age 18.756s)<br /> hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br /> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................<br /> 00 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............<br /> backtrace:<br /> [] __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:965 [inline]<br /> [] __kmalloc+0x4a/0x130 mm/slab_common.c:979<br /> [] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]<br /> [] sk_prot_alloc+0xef/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:2035<br /> [] sk_alloc+0x36/0x2f0 net/core/sock.c:2088<br /> [] tun_chr_open+0x3d/0x190 drivers/net/tun.c:3438<br /> [] misc_open+0x1a6/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165<br /> [] chrdev_open+0x111/0x300 fs/char_dev.c:414<br /> [] do_dentry_open+0x2f9/0x750 fs/open.c:920<br /> [] do_open fs/namei.c:3636 [inline]<br /> [] path_openat+0x143f/0x1a30 fs/namei.c:3791<br /> [] do_filp_open+0xce/0x1c0 fs/namei.c:3818<br /> [] do_sys_openat2+0xf0/0x260 fs/open.c:1356<br /> [] do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]<br /> [] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]<br /> [] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]<br /> [] __x64_sys_openat+0x83/0xf0 fs/open.c:1383<br /> [] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br /> [] do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br /> [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc<br /> <br /> unreferenced object 0xffff88802f671700 (size 240):<br /> comm "syz-executor.1", pid 33269, jiffies 4295743854 (age 18.736s)<br /> hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br /> 68 c9 db 1e 80 88 ff ff 68 c9 db 1e 80 88 ff ff h.......h.......<br /> 00 c0 7b 2f 80 88 ff ff 00 c8 db 1e 80 88 ff ff ..{/............<br /> backtrace:<br /> [] __alloc_skb+0x223/0x250 net/core/skbuff.c:644<br /> [] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1288 [inline]<br /> [] alloc_skb_with_frags+0x6f/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:6378<br /> [] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x3ac/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2729<br /> [] tun_alloc_skb drivers/net/tun.c:1529 [inline]<br /> [

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