CVE-2023-53204

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 24/100
Published: 2025-09-15 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: High
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight. user->unix_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock), but too_many_unix_fds() reads it locklessly. Let's annotate the write/read accesses to user->unix_inflight. BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_attach_fds / unix_inflight write to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44798 on cpu 1: unix_inflight+0x157/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:66 unix_attach_fds+0x147/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:123 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950 unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline] unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 read to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44814 on cpu 0: too_many_unix_fds net/unix/scm.c:101 [inline] unix_attach_fds+0x54/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:110 unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline] unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950 unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline] unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748 ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494 ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548 __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline] __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline] __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 value changed: 0x000000000000000c -> 0x000000000000000d Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 44814 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-11989-g6843306689af #6 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (26)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < df97b5ea9f3ac9308c3a633524dab382cd59d9e5
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < 03d133dfbcec9d439729cc64706c7eb6d1663a24
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < adcf4e069358cdee8593663650ea447215a1c49e
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < b401d7e485b0a234cf8fe9a6ae99dbcd20863138
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < 9151ed4b006125cba7c06c79df504340ea4e9386
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < b9cdbb38e030fc2fe97fe27b54cbb6b4fbff250f
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < ac92f239a079678a035c0faad9089354a874aede
Linux Linux 712f4aad406bb1ed67f3f98d04c044191f0ff593 < 0bc36c0650b21df36fbec8136add83936eaf0607
Linux Linux a5a6cf8c405e826ff7ed1308dde72560c0ed4854
Linux Linux df87da0783c4492b944badfea9d5c3c56b834697
Linux Linux 3d024dcef2548028e9f9b7876a544e6e0af00175
Linux Linux aa51d1c24ec3b6605f7cc7ef500c96cd71d7ef90
Linux Linux a5b9e44af8d3edaf49d14a91cc519a9fba439e67
Linux Linux dc6b0ec667f67d4768e72c1b7f1bbc14ea52379c
Linux Linux 9b8b611fe0f86f07a4ff4a5f3bcb0ea7ceb7da3b
Linux Linux 5e226f9689d90ad8ab21b4a969ae3058777f0aff
Linux Linux 3.2.78 < 3.3
Linux Linux 3.10.96 < 3.11
Linux Linux 3.12.57 < 3.13
Linux Linux 3.14.60 < 3.15
Linux Linux 3.18.27 < 3.19
Linux Linux 4.1.17 < 4.2
Linux Linux 4.3.5 < 4.4
Linux Linux 4.4.1 < 4.5
Linux Linux 4.5
linux linux_kernel 3.2.78 – 3.3

Bug Bounty Relevance

24 / 100
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

4.7 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001200
Percentile 1.9%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00120
2026-11-13
0.00120
2026-11-12
0.00119
2026-11-10
0.00119
2026-11-09
0.00119
2026-11-08
0.00119
2026-11-07
0.00119
2026-11-06
0.00119
2026-11-05
0.00119

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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