CVE-2023-54112

kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()

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Published: December 24, 2025 at 01:06 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg() syzbot reported a memory leak like below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810b088c00 (size 240): comm "syz-executor186", pid 5012, jiffies 4294943306 (age 13.680s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 89 08 0b 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff83e5d5ff>] __alloc_skb+0x1ef/0x230 net/core/skbuff.c:634 [<ffffffff84606e59>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1289 [inline] [<ffffffff84606e59>] kcm_sendmsg+0x269/0x1050 net/kcm/kcmsock.c:815 [<ffffffff83e479c6>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline] [<ffffffff83e479c6>] sock_sendmsg+0x56/0xb0 net/socket.c:748 [<ffffffff83e47f55>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x365/0x470 net/socket.c:2494 [<ffffffff83e4c389>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xc9/0x130 net/socket.c:2548 [<ffffffff83e4c536>] __sys_sendmsg+0xa6/0x120 net/socket.c:2577 [<ffffffff84ad7bb8>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84ad7bb8>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84c0008b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd In kcm_sendmsg(), kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb is used as a cursor to append newly allocated skbs to 'head'. If some bytes are copied, an error occurred, and jumped to out_error label, 'last_skb' is left unmodified. A later kcm_sendmsg() will use an obsoleted 'last_skb' reference, corrupting the 'head' frag_list and causing the leak. This patch fixes this issue by properly updating the last allocated skb in 'last_skb'.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.6 ≤ v < 4.14.3264.6 ≤ v < 4.19.2954.6 ≤ v < 5.10.1954.6 ≤ v < 5.15.1324.6 ≤ v < 5.4.2574.6 ≤ v < 6.1.544.6 ≤ v < 6.5.44.6 ≤ v < 6.64.6ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3
Vendor states this is fixed in 16989de75497574b5fafd174c0c233d5a86858b7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 33db24ad811b3576a0c2f8862506763f2be925b0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 479c71cda14b3c3a6515773faa39055333eaa2b7 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5e5554389397e98fafb9efe395d8b4830dd5f042 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 8dc7eb757b1652b82725f32e0c89a1e9f6c0e13b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 97275339c34cfbccd65e87bc38fd910ae66c48ba (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in af8085e0fc3207ecbf8b9e7a635c790e36d058c6 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c821a88bd720b0046433173185fd841a100d44ad (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.14.326 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.19.295 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.195 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.132 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.4.257 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.54 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6 (unaffected)

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