CVE-2023-54226

Updated on 30 Dec 2025

Severity

5.1 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.1

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix data races around sk->sk_shutdown. KCSAN found a data race around sk->sk_shutdown where unix_release_sock() and unix_shutdown() update it under unix_state_lock(), OTOH unix_poll() and unix_dgram_poll() read it locklessly. We need to annotate the writes and reads with WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE(). BUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_poll / unix_release_sock write to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 264 on cpu 0: unix_release_sock+0x75c/0x910 net/unix/af_unix.c:631 unix_release+0x59/0x80 net/unix/af_unix.c:1042 __sock_release+0x7d/0x170 net/socket.c:653 sock_close+0x19/0x30 net/socket.c:1397 __fput+0x179/0x5e0 fs/file_table.c:321 ____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349 task_work_run+0x116/0x1a0 kernel/task_work.c:179 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:171 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x174/0x180 kernel/entry/common.c:204 __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:286 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1a/0x30 kernel/entry/common.c:297 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc read to 0xffff88800d0f8aec of 1 bytes by task 222 on cpu 1: unix_poll+0xa3/0x2a0 net/unix/af_unix.c:3170 sock_poll+0xcf/0x2b0 net/socket.c:1385 vfs_poll include/linux/poll.h:88 [inline] ep_item_poll.isra.0+0x78/0xc0 fs/eventpoll.c:855 ep_send_events fs/eventpoll.c:1694 [inline] ep_poll fs/eventpoll.c:1823 [inline] do_epoll_wait+0x6c4/0xea0 fs/eventpoll.c:2258 __do_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2270 [inline] __se_sys_epoll_wait fs/eventpoll.c:2265 [inline] __x64_sys_epoll_wait+0xcc/0x190 fs/eventpoll.c:2265 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+0x72/0xdc value changed: 0x00 -> 0x03 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 1 PID: 222 Comm: dbus-broker Not tainted 6.3.0-rc7-02330-gca6270c12e20 #2 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

Details

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Amazon Linux 2 Released
89 kernels
  • 4.14.152-127.182.amzn2
  • 4.14.154-128.181.amzn2
  • 4.14.165-131.185.amzn2
  • 4.14.146-120.181.amzn2
  • 4.14.152-124.171.amzn2
  • 4.14.171-136.231.amzn2
  • 4.14.158-129.185.amzn2
  • 4.14.165-133.209.amzn2
  • 4.14.173-137.228.amzn2
  • 4.14.177-139.254.amzn2
  • 4.14.173-137.229.amzn2
  • 4.14.177-139.253.amzn2
  • 4.14.181-140.257.amzn2
  • 4.14.186-146.268.amzn2
  • 4.14.181-142.260.amzn2
  • 4.14.192-147.314.amzn2
  • 4.14.193-149.317.amzn2
  • 4.14.198-152.320.amzn2
  • 4.14.200-155.322.amzn2
  • 4.14.203-156.332.amzn2
  • 4.14.209-160.335.amzn2
  • 4.14.214-160.339.amzn2
  • 4.14.209-160.339.amzn2
  • 4.14.219-161.340.amzn2
  • 4.14.225-168.357.amzn2
  • 4.14.231-173.360.amzn2
  • 4.14.219-164.354.amzn2
  • 4.14.225-169.362.amzn2
  • 4.14.232-176.381.amzn2
  • 4.14.232-177.418.amzn2
  • 4.14.238-182.421.amzn2
  • 4.14.238-182.422.amzn2
  • 4.14.231-173.361.amzn2
  • 4.14.241-184.433.amzn2
  • 4.14.243-185.433.amzn2
  • 4.14.246-187.474.amzn2
  • 4.14.248-189.473.amzn2
  • 4.14.252-195.481.amzn2
  • 4.14.252-195.483.amzn2
  • 4.14.256-197.484.amzn2
  • 4.14.262-200.489.amzn2
  • 4.14.268-205.500.amzn2
  • 4.14.273-207.502.amzn2
  • 4.14.275-207.503.amzn2
  • 4.14.276-211.499.amzn2
  • 4.14.281-212.502.amzn2
  • 4.14.285-215.501.amzn2
  • 4.14.287-215.504.amzn2
  • 4.14.290-217.505.amzn2
  • 4.14.291-218.527.amzn2
  • 4.14.294-220.533.amzn2
  • 4.14.296-222.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.299-223.520.amzn2
  • 4.14.301-224.520.amzn2
  • 4.14.304-226.531.amzn2
  • 4.14.301-225.528.amzn2
  • 4.14.309-231.529.amzn2
  • 4.14.305-227.531.amzn2
  • 4.14.313-235.533.amzn2
  • 4.14.314-237.533.amzn2
  • 4.14.314-238.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.318-240.529.amzn2
  • 4.14.318-241.531.amzn2
  • 4.14.320-242.534.amzn2
  • 4.14.320-243.544.amzn2
  • 4.14.322-244.536.amzn2
  • 4.14.311-233.529.amzn2
  • 4.14.322-244.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.326-245.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.327-246.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.328-248.540.amzn2
  • 4.14.322-246.539.amzn2
  • 4.14.330-250.540.amzn2
  • 4.14.334-252.552.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-253.554.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-255.557.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-256.559.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-257.562.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-256.557.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-257.568.amzn2
  • 4.14.336-257.566.amzn2
  • 4.14.343-261.564.amzn2
  • 4.14.343-259.562.amzn2
  • 4.14.343-260.564.amzn2
  • 4.14.348-265.562.amzn2
  • 4.14.344-262.563.amzn2
  • 4.14.345-262.561.amzn2
  • 4.14.348-265.565.amzn2
  • 4.14.349-266.564.amzn2
Amazon Linux 2023 Planned