CVE-2023-53072
CVE-2023-53072CVE-2023-53072
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets
Christoph reported a UaF at token lookup time after having
refactored the passive socket initialization part:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810698d5b0 by task syz-executor653/3198
CPU: 1 PID: 3198 Comm: syz-executor653 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91
print_report+0x16a/0x46f
kasan_report+0xad/0x130
__token_bucket_busy+0x253/0x260
mptcp_token_new_connect+0x13d/0x490
mptcp_connect+0x4ed/0x860
__inet_stream_connect+0x80e/0xd90
tcp_sendmsg_fastopen+0x3ce/0x710
mptcp_sendmsg+0xff1/0x1a20
inet_sendmsg+0x11d/0x140
__sys_sendto+0x405/0x490
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
d
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |