🔍 CVE-2023-53836

7.8
CVSS Score
HIGH
2025-12-09
2026-10-15 22:17
✅ 완료

🇰🇷 한글 설명

Linux 커널의 bpf 및 sockmap 구성 요소에서 skb 참조 횟수(refcnt) 경합 조건으로 인한 Use-After-Free 취약점이 발견되었습니다. 사용자 공간에서 skb를 소비하여 참조 횟수가 0이 된 후, 백로그 큐에서 해당 메모리에 접근하려고 시도할 때 시스템 오류가 발생할 수 있습니다.

💡 쉬운 설명

데이터를 처리하는 과정에서 메모리가 이미 삭제되었는데 시스템이 이를 다시 사용하려고 시도하는 오류입니다. 이로 인해 시스템이 갑자기 멈추거나 보안 문제가 발생할 수 있습니다.

🇺🇸 원문 (English)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Fix skb refcnt race after locking changes There is a race where skb's from the sk_psock_backlog can be referenced after userspace side has already skb_consumed() the sk_buff and its refcnt dropped to zer0 causing use after free. The flow is the following: while ((skb = skb_peek(&psock->ingress_skb)) sk_psock_handle_Skb(psock, skb, ..., ingress) if (!ingress) ... sk_psock_skb_ingress sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue(skb) msg->skb = skb sk_psock_queue_msg(psock, msg) skb_dequeue(&psock->ingress_skb) The sk_psock_queue_msg() puts the msg on the ingress_msg queue. This is what the application reads when recvmsg() is called. An application can read this anytime after the msg is placed on the queue. The recvmsg hook will also read msg->skb and then after user space reads the msg will call consume_skb(skb) on it effectively free'ing it. But, the race is in above where backlog queue still has a reference to the skb and calls skb_dequeue(). If the skb_dequeue happens after the user reads and free's the skb we have a use after free. The !ingress case does not suffer from this problem because it uses sendmsg_*(sk, msg) which does not pass the sk_buff further down the stack. The following splat was observed with 'test_progs -t sockmap_listen': [ 1022.710250][ T2556] general protection fault, ... [...] [ 1022.712830][ T2556] Workqueue: events sk_psock_backlog [ 1022.713262][ T2556] RIP: 0010:skb_dequeue+0x4c/0x80 [ 1022.713653][ T2556] Code: ... [...] [ 1022.720699][ T2556] Call Trace: [ 1022.720984][ T2556] <TASK> [ 1022.721254][ T2556] ? die_addr+0x32/0x80^M [ 1022.721589][ T2556] ? exc_general_protection+0x25a/0x4b0 [ 1022.722026][ T2556] ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30 [ 1022.722489][ T2556] ? skb_dequeue+0x4c/0x80 [ 1022.722854][ T2556] sk_psock_backlog+0x27a/0x300 [ 1022.723243][ T2556] process_one_work+0x2a7/0x5b0 [ 1022.723633][ T2556] worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0 [ 1022.723998][ T2556] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10 [ 1022.724386][ T2556] kthread+0xfd/0x130 [ 1022.724709][ T2556] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 1022.725066][ T2556] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50 [ 1022.725409][ T2556] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [ 1022.725799][ T2556] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 [ 1022.726201][ T2556] </TASK> To fix we add an skb_get() before passing the skb to be enqueued in the engress queue. This bumps the skb->users refcnt so that consume_skb() and kfree_skb will not immediately free the sk_buff. With this we can be sure the skb is still around when we do the dequeue. Then we just need to decrement the refcnt or free the skb in the backlog case which we do by calling kfree_skb() on the ingress case as well as the sendmsg case. Before locking change from fixes tag we had the sock locked so we couldn't race with user and there was no issue here.

📍 영향받는 시스템

Linux kernel (bpf, sockmap 관련 기능 사용 시)

⚔️ 공격 벡터

특정 네트워크 패킷 처리 흐름을 유도하여 메모리 참조 경합을 일으키는 로컬 공격

🛡️ 대응 방법

Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 skb 참조 횟수 관리 로직을 수정해야 합니다.

🔧 검증 코드

현재 실행 중인 커널 버전을 확인하여 해당 취약점이 해결된 패치 버전인지 확인합니다.

Shell / Script
uname -r

📊 CVSS Vector String

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

💻 영향받는 소프트웨어

Linux Kernel