CVE-2023-53825
Published: Dec 9, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg(). syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720 ("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()") suppressed it by updating kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb if partial data is copied so that the following sendmsg() will resume from the skb. However, we cannot know how many bytes were copied when we get the error. Thus, we could mess up the MSG_MORE queue. When kcm_sendmsg() fails for SOCK_DGRAM, we should purge the queue as we do so for UDP by udp_flush_pending_frames(). Even without this change, when the error occurred, the following sendmsg() resumed from a wrong skb and the queue was messed up. However, we have yet to get such a report, and only syzkaller stumbled on it. So, this can be changed safely. Note this does not change SOCK_SEQPACKET behaviour.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 - < 21b467735b0888a8daa048f83d3b9b50fdab71ceaffected ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 - < d4b8f380b0a041ee6a84fdac14127d8fe1dcad7baffected ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 - < 1ce8362b4ac6b8e65fd04a22ea37ec776ee1ec5baffected ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 - < 2e18493c421428a936946c452461b8e979088f17affected ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3 - < 55d2e7c1ab8eaa7b62575b8a4194132795d1f9fc+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.6unaffected 0 - < 4.6unaffected 4.14.326 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.295 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.257 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
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