🛡️ AZL-76428 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

CVE-2023-53685 affecting package kernel 5.15.200.1-1

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

tun: Fix memory leak for detached NAPI queue.

syzkaller reported [0] memory leaks of sk and skb related to the TUN

device with no repro, but we can reproduce it easily with:

struct ifreq ifr = {}

int fd_tun, fd_tmp;

char buf[4] = {};

fd_tun = openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/net/tun", O_WRONLY, 0);

ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_TUN | IFF_NAPI | IFF_MULTI_QUEUE;

ioctl(fd_tun, TUNSETIFF, &ifr);

ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_DETACH_QUEUE;

ioctl(fd_tun, TUNSETQUEUE, &ifr);

fd_tmp = socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_PACKET, 0);

ifr.ifr_flags = IFF_UP;

ioctl(fd_tmp, SIOCSIFFLAGS, &ifr);

write(fd_tun, buf, sizeof(buf));

close(fd_tun);

If we enable NAPI and multi-queue on a TUN device, we can put skb into

tfile->sk.sk_write_queue after the queue is detached. We should prevent

it by checking tfile->detached before queuing skb.

Note this must be done under tfile->sk.sk_write_queue.lock because write()

and ioctl(IFF_DETACH_QUEUE) can run concurrently. Otherwise, there would

be a small race window:

write() ioctl(IFF_DETACH_QUEUE)

- tun_get_user - __tun_detach

|- if (tfile->detached) |- tun_disable_queue

| -> false | - tfile->detached = tun

| `- tun_queue_purge

|- spin_lock_bh(&queue->lock)

`- __skb_queue_tail(queue, skb)

Another solution is to call tun_queue_purge() when closing and

reattaching the detached queue, but it could paper over another

problems. Also, we do the same kind of test for IFF_NAPI_FRAGS.

[0]:

unreferenced object 0xffff88801edbc800 (size 2048):

comm "syz-executor.1", pid 33269, jiffies 4295743834 (age 18.756s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 07 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...@............

backtrace:

[<000000008c16ea3d>] __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:965 [inline]

[<000000008c16ea3d>] __kmalloc+0x4a/0x130 mm/slab_common.c:979

[<000000003addde56>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]

[<000000003addde56>] sk_prot_alloc+0xef/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:2035

[<000000003e20621f>] sk_alloc+0x36/0x2f0 net/core/sock.c:2088

[<0000000028e43843>] tun_chr_open+0x3d/0x190 drivers/net/tun.c:3438

[<000000001b0f1f28>] misc_open+0x1a6/0x1f0 drivers/char/misc.c:165

[<000000004376f706>] chrdev_open+0x111/0x300 fs/char_dev.c:414

[<00000000614d379f>] do_dentry_open+0x2f9/0x750 fs/open.c:920

[<000000008eb24774>] do_open fs/namei.c:3636 [inline]

[<000000008eb24774>] path_openat+0x143f/0x1a30 fs/namei.c:3791

[<00000000955077b5>] do_filp_open+0xce/0x1c0 fs/namei.c:3818

[<00000000b78973b0>] do_sys_openat2+0xf0/0x260 fs/open.c:1356

[<00000000057be699>] do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]

[<00000000057be699>] __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]

[<00000000057be699>] __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]

[<00000000057be699>] __x64_sys_openat+0x83/0xf0 fs/open.c:1383

[<00000000a7d2182d>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

[<00000000a7d2182d>] do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

[<000000004cc4e8c4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

unreferenced object 0xffff88802f671700 (size 240):

comm "syz-executor.1", pid 33269, jiffies 4295743854 (age 18.736s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

68 c9 db 1e 80 88 ff ff 68 c9 db 1e 80 88 ff ff h.......h.......

00 c0 7b 2f 80 88 ff ff 00 c8 db 1e 80 88 ff ff ..{/............

backtrace:

[<00000000e9d9fdb6>] __alloc_skb+0x223/0x250 net/core/skbuff.c:644

[<000000002c3e4e0b>] alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1288 [inline]

[<000000002c3e4e0b>] alloc_skb_with_frags+0x6f/0x350 net/core/skbuff.c:6378

[<00000000825f98d7>] sock_alloc_send_pskb+0x3ac/0x3e0 net/core/sock.c:2729

[<00000000e9eb3df3>] tun_alloc_skb drivers/net/tun.c:1529 [inline]

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Affected software

AZL-76428 is recorded against 1 package.

  • kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 7 October 2025 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-10-07
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel

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