{"cve":"CVE-2023-54226","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-30T13:16:10.987","modified":"2026-10-28T19:10:00.193","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown.\n\nKCSAN found a data race around sk->sk_shutdown where unix_release_sock()\nand unix_shutdown() update it under unix_state_lock(), OTOH unix_poll()\nand unix_dgram_poll() read it locklessly.\n\nWe need to annotate the writes and reads with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE().\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_poll / unix_release_sock\n\nwrite to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 264 on cpu 0:\n unix_release_sock+0x75c/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:631\n unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1042\n __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653\n sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1397\n __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321\n ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349\n task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179\n resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline]\n exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204\n __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline]\n syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297\n do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nread to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 222 on cpu 1:\n unix_poll+0xa3/0x2a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:3170\n sock_poll+0xcf/0x2b0 net/socket.c:1385\n vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:88 [inline]\n ep_item_poll.isra.0+0x78/0xc0 fs/eventpoll.c:855\n ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1694 [inline]\n ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1823 [inline]\n do_epoll_wait+0x6c4/0xea0 fs/eventpoll.c:2258\n __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2270 [inline]\n __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2265 [inline]\n __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xcc/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2265\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nvalue changed: 0x00 -> 0x03\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 1 PID: 222 Comm: dbus-broker Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-02330-gca6270c12e20 #2\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/196528ad484443627779540697f4fb0ef0e01c52","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c488f4e95b498c977fbeae784983eb4cf6085e8","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8307e372e7445ec7d3cd2ff107ce5078eaa02815","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a41559ae3681975f1ced815d8d4c983b6b938499","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1d09c2c2f5793474556b60f83900e088d0d366d"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-28T19:37:43.506563291+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-54226","score":0.00205,"percentile":0.10419,"date":"2026-10-28"},"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."]}