{"cve":"CVE-2023-53088","nvd":{"published":"2025-05-02T16:15:27.760","modified":"2026-10-15T22:17:36.980","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmptcp: fix UaF in listener shutdown\n\nAs reported by Christoph after having refactored the passive\nsocket initialization, the mptcp listener shutdown path is prone\nto an UaF issue.\n\n  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0\n  Write of size 4 at addr ffff88810cb23098 by task syz-executor731/1266\n\n  CPU: 1 PID: 1266 Comm: syz-executor731 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc59af4eaa31c1f6c00c8f1e448ed99a45c66340dd5 #6\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n  Call Trace:\n   <TASK>\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x6e/0x91\n   print_report+0x16a/0x46f\n   kasan_report+0xad/0x130\n   kasan_check_range+0x14a/0x1a0\n   _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x73/0xe0\n   subflow_error_report+0x6d/0x110\n   sk_error_report+0x3b/0x190\n   tcp_disconnect+0x138c/0x1aa0\n   inet_child_forget+0x6f/0x2e0\n   inet_csk_listen_stop+0x209/0x1060\n   __mptcp_close_ssk+0x52d/0x610\n   mptcp_destroy_common+0x165/0x640\n   mptcp_destroy+0x13/0x80\n   __mptcp_destroy_sock+0xe7/0x270\n   __mptcp_close+0x70e/0x9b0\n   mptcp_close+0x2b/0x150\n   inet_release+0xe9/0x1f0\n   __sock_release+0xd2/0x280\n   sock_close+0x15/0x20\n   __fput+0x252/0xa20\n   task_work_run+0x169/0x250\n   exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x113/0x120\n   syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x40\n   do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nThe msk grace period can legitly expire in between the last\nreference count dropped in mptcp_subflow_queue_clean() and\nthe later eventual access in inet_csk_listen_stop()\n\nAfter the previous patch we don't need anymore special-casing\nmsk listener socket cleanup: the mptcp worker will process each\nof the unaccepted msk sockets.\n\nJust drop the now unnecessary code.\n\nPlease note this commit depends on the two parent ones:\n\n  mptcp: refactor passive socket initialization\n  mptcp: use the workqueue to destroy unaccepted sockets","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-416"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a3f4f1f9c27215e4ddcd312558342e57b93e518","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f4f4cf5d32f10543deb946a37111e714579511e","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5564be74a22a61855f8b8c100d8c4abb003bb792"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:01:22.920403922+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-53088","score":0.00204,"percentile":0.10288,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}