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Medium ยท CVSS 5.5CVE-2023-53489

tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.CVE-2023-53489

Answer in brief

CVE-2023-53489 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp.. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Analysis pending evidence review

HOL Guard separates source facts from reviewed analysis. See the methodology.

Published Oct 1, 2025Updated Nov 5, 2026Source checked Nov 5, 2026First seen by HOL Nov 5, 2026Material review Nov 5, 2026
Upstream Advisory

Key facts

Risk
Medium ยท CVSS 5.5
Exploitation
Not marked as known exploited
Affected software
3 mapped packages or products
Fix availability
Available

Why this deserves its current priority

CVSS is 5.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.

Analysis status

Analysis pending evidence review

Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.

Affected scope and exposure questions

The current feed maps Linux/Linux (generic), Linux/Linux (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Affected products and reported versions
ProductAffected versionsFixed versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Not reportedNot reported
Mapped affected packages and fixed versions
PackageAffected rangeFixed version
Linux/Linuxgeneric>=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <281072fb2a7294cde7acbf5375b879f40a8001b7 || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <1f69c086b20e27763af28145981435423f088268 || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <602fa8af44fd55a58f9e94eb673e8adad2c6cc46 || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <230a5ed7d813fb516de81d23f09d7506753e41e9 || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <43e4197dd5f6b474a8b16f8b6a42cd45cf4f9d1a || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <cb52e7f24c1d01a536a847dff0d1d95889cc3b5c || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <30290f210ba7426ff7592fe2eb4114b1b5bad219 || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <426384dd4980040651536fef5feac4dcc4d7ee4e || >=f214f915e7db99091f1312c48b30928c1e0c90b7 <50749f2dd6854a41830996ad302aef2ffaf011d8281072fb2a7294cde7acbf5375b879f40a8001b7, 1f69c086b20e27763af28145981435423f088268, 602fa8af44fd55a58f9e94eb673e8adad2c6cc46, 230a5ed7d813fb516de81d23f09d7506753e41e9, 43e4197dd5f6b474a8b16f8b6a42cd45cf4f9d1a, cb52e7f24c1d01a536a847dff0d1d95889cc3b5c, 30290f210ba7426ff7592fe2eb4114b1b5bad219, 426384dd4980040651536fef5feac4dcc4d7ee4e, 50749f2dd6854a41830996ad302aef2ffaf011d8
Linux/Linuxgeneric4.14Not reported

Recommended response

  1. 1Check inventory. Check lockfiles and deployed manifests for Linux/Linux, Linux/Linux.
  2. 2Review the reported fix. Update Linux/Linux to 281072fb2a7294cde7acbf5375b879f40a8001b7 if you use the affected versions. Test the change in a non-production environment first.

Evidence timeline and material changes

  1. Published upstream

    Oct 1, 2025

    Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:record
  2. Source modified

    Nov 5, 2026

    Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:record
  3. First seen by HOL

    Nov 5, 2026

Sources and claim methodology

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Upstream source description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp/udp: Fix memleaks of sk and zerocopy skbs with TX timestamp. syzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of an UDP socket and ZEROCOPY skbs. We can reproduce the problem with these sequences: sk = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_TIMESTAMPING, SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE) sk.setsockopt(SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, 1) sk.sendto(b'', MSG_ZEROCOPY, ('127.0.0.1', 53)) sk.close() sendmsg() calls msg_zerocopy_alloc(), which allocates a skb, sets skb->cb->ubuf.refcnt to 1, and calls sock_hold(). Here, struct ubuf_info_msgzc indirectly holds a refcnt of the socket. When the skb is sent, __skb_tstamp_tx() clones it and puts the clone into the socket's error queue with the TX timestamp. When the original skb is received locally, skb_copy_ubufs() calls skb_unclone(), and pskb_expand_head() increments skb->cb->ubuf.refcnt. This additional count is decremented while freeing the skb, but struct ubuf_info_msgzc still has a refcnt, so __msg_zerocopy_callback() is not called. The last refcnt is not released unless we retrieve the TX timestamped skb by recvmsg(). Since we clear the error queue in inet_sock_destruct() after the socket's refcnt reaches 0, there is a circular dependency. If we close() the socket holding such skbs, we never call sock_put() and leak the count, sk, and skb. TCP has the same problem, and commit e0c8bccd40fc ("net: stream: purge sk_error_queue in sk_stream_kill_queues()") tried to fix it by calling skb_queue_purge() during close(). However, there is a small chance that skb queued in a qdisc or device could be put into the error queue after the skb_queue_purge() call. In __skb_tstamp_tx(), the cloned skb should not have a reference to the ubuf to remove the circular dependency, but skb_clone() does not call skb_copy_ubufs() for zerocopy skb. So, we need to call skb_orphan_frags_rx() for the cloned skb to call skb_copy_ubufs(). [0]: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88800c6d2d00 (size 1152): comm "syz-executor392", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 cd af e8 81 00 00 00 00 ................ 02 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............ backtrace: [<0000000055636812>] sk_prot_alloc+0x64/0x2a0 net/core/sock.c:2024 [<0000000054d77b7a>] sk_alloc+0x3b/0x800 net/core/sock.c:2083 [<0000000066f3c7e0>] inet_create net/ipv4/af_inet.c:319 [inline] [<0000000066f3c7e0>] inet_create+0x31e/0xe40 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:245 [<000000009b83af97>] __sock_create+0x2ab/0x550 net/socket.c:1515 [<00000000b9b11231>] sock_create net/socket.c:1566 [inline] [<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1603 [inline] [<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket_create net/socket.c:1588 [inline] [<00000000b9b11231>] __sys_socket+0x138/0x250 net/socket.c:1636 [<000000004fb45142>] __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1649 [inline] [<000000004fb45142>] __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1647 [inline] [<000000004fb45142>] __x64_sys_socket+0x73/0xb0 net/socket.c:1647 [<0000000066999e0e>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<0000000066999e0e>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<0000000017f238c1>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888017633a00 (size 240): comm "syz-executor392", pid 264, jiffies 4294785440 (age 13.044s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2d 6d 0c 80 88 ff ff .........-m..... backtrace: [<000000002b1c4368>] __alloc_skb+0x229/0x320 net/core/skbuff.c:497 [<00000000143579a6>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1265 [inline] [<00000000143579a6>] sock_omalloc+0xaa/0x190 net/core/sock.c:2596 [<00000000be626478>] msg_zerocopy_alloc net/core/skbuff.c:1294 [inline] [<00000000be626478>] ---truncated---

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Record context

Vulnerability class
Vulnerability
EPSS
Not reported
CWE IDs
CWE-401
Source
CVE List V5
Source checked
Nov 5, 2026
References
9 linked sources
Open source record