CVE-2023-53752
CVE-2023-53752CVE-2023-53752
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: deal with integer overflows in kmalloc_reserve()
Blamed commit changed:
ptr = kmalloc(size);
if (ptr)
size = ksize(ptr);
size = kmalloc_size_roundup(size);
ptr = kmalloc(size);
This allowed various crash as reported by syzbot [1]
and Kyle Zeng.
Problem is that if @size is bigger than 0x80000001,
kmalloc_size_roundup(size) returns 2^32.
kmalloc_reserve() uses a 32bit variable (obj_size),
so 2^32 is truncated to 0.
kmalloc(0) returns ZERO_SIZE_PTR which is not handled by
skb allocations.
Following trace can be triggered if a netdev->mtu is set
close to 0x7fffffff
We might in the future limit netdev->mtu to more sensible
limit (like KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE).
This patch is based on a syzbot report, and also a report
and tentative fix from Kyle Zeng.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __build_skb_around net/core/skbuff.c:294 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: user-memory-access in __alloc_skb+0x3c4/0x6e8
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 |