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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2023-54142 json

gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().

published 2025-12-24 10 mo ago modified 2026-08-05 3 mo ago also EUVD-2023-60303

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().

syzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0]

It shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally.

Commit e198987e7dd7 ("gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage") added lock_sock() and release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk->sk_user_data, but release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt.

[0]: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401

CPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline] print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462 kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187 instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline] atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline] queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline] do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline] __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline] _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178 spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline] release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526 gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline] gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664 gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728 unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841 rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline] rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268 rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423 netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline] netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365 netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747 ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493 ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547 __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc RIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1483: kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x ---truncated---

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.14.322, 4.19.291, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4.251, 5.10.188, 5.15.121, 6.1.39, 6.3.13, 6.4.4, 6.5
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.52-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.4.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54142

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-166.183
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-86.96
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1113.123
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1047.52
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1117.126
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1044.52
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1044.49
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1060.65

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54142

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +5 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +1 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.194.1.150400.24.98.3

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:0734-1SUSE-SU-2026:0731-1SUSE-SU-2026:0727-1SUSE-SU-2026:0725-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-54142 updated cvss 7.8

kernel: Linux kernel: Privilege escalation via use-after-free in gtp module

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

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Sources

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