linux — security advisory

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  "id": "9061958433658d5e47f6c524f24a53cf6bf491d6087bb14d9785b27aaddd9940",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53198",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53198",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: raw: Fix NULL deref in raw_get_next(). Dae R. Jeong reported a NULL deref in raw_get_next() [0]. It seems that the repro was running these sequences in parallel so that one thread was iterating on a socket that was being freed in another netns. unshare(0x40060200) r0 = syz_open_procfs(0x0, &(0x7f0000002080)='net/raw\\x00') socket$inet_icmp_raw(0x2, 0x3, 0x1) pread64(r0, &(0x7f0000000000)=\"\"/10, 0xa, 0x10000000007f) After commit 0daf07e52709 (\"raw: convert raw sockets to RCU\"), we use RCU and hlist_nulls_for_each_entry() to iterate over SOCK_RAW sockets. However, we should use spinlock for slow paths to avoid the NULL deref. Also, SOCK_RAW does not use SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, and the slab object is not reused during iteration in the grace period. In fact, the lockless readers do not check the nulls marker with get_nulls_value(). So, SOCK_RAW should use hlist instead of hlist_nulls. Instead of adding an unnecessary barrier by sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(), let's convert hlist_nulls to hlist and use sk_for_each_rcu() for fast paths and sk_for_each() and spinlock for /proc/net/raw. [0]: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f] CPU: 2 PID: 20952 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.2.0-g048ec869bafd-dirty #7 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53198",
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    "severity": "medium",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:52.195234554Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2023-53198"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53198"
      ]
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 457080,
  "published_at": "2025-09-15T14:15:42.223+00:00"
}