CVE-2023-53825

kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg().

published December 9, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg().

syzkaller found a memory leak in kcm_sendmsg(), and commit c821a88bd720

("kcm: Fix memory leak in error path of kcm_sendmsg()") suppressed it by

updating kcm_tx_msg(head)->last_skb if partial data is copied so that the

following sendmsg() will resume from the skb.

However, we cannot know how many bytes were copied when we get the error.

Thus, we could mess up the MSG_MORE queue.

When kcm_sendmsg() fails for SOCK_DGRAM, we should purge the queue as we

do so for UDP by udp_flush_pending_frames().

Even without this change, when the error occurred, the following sendmsg()

resumed from a wrong skb and the queue was messed up. However, we have

yet to get such a report, and only syzkaller stumbled on it. So, this

can be changed safely.

Note this does not change SOCK_SEQPACKET behaviour.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00257 · 16.4th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T01:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 01:29Z
    kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg().
    cvelistv5