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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 18, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 11, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

mm: kmem: fix a NULL pointer dereference in obj_stock_flush_required()

KCSAN found an issue in obj_stock_flush_required():
stock->cached_objcg can be reset between the check and dereference:

==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in drain_all_stock / drain_obj_stock

write to 0xffff888237c2a2f8 of 8 bytes by task 19625 on cpu 0:
drain_obj_stock+0x408/0x4e0 mm/memcontrol.c:3306
refill_obj_stock+0x9c/0x1e0 mm/memcontrol.c:3340
obj_cgroup_uncharge+0xe/0x10 mm/memcontrol.c:3408
memcg_slab_free_hook mm/slab.h:587 [inline]
__cache_free mm/slab.c:3373 [inline]
__do_kmem_cache_free mm/slab.c:3577 [inline]
kmem_cache_free+0x105/0x280 mm/slab.c:3602
__d_free fs/dcache.c:298 [inline]
dentry_free fs/dcache.c:375 [inline]
__dentry_kill+0x422/0x4a0 fs/dcache.c:621
dentry_kill+0x8d/0x1e0
dput+0x118/0x1f0 fs/dcache.c:913
__fput+0x3bf/0x570 fs/file_table.c:329
____fput+0x15/0x20 fs/file_table.c:349
task_work_run+0x123/0x160 kernel/task_work.c:179
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:49 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xcf/0xe0 kernel/entry/common.c:171
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x6a/0xa0 kernel/entry/common.c:203
__syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:285 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x26/0x140 kernel/entry/common.c:296
do_syscall_64+0x4d/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:86
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

read to 0xffff888237c2a2f8 of 8 bytes by task 19632 on cpu 1:
obj_stock_flush_required mm/memcontrol.c:3319 [inline]
drain_all_stock+0x174/0x2a0 mm/memcontrol.c:2361
try_charge_memcg+0x6d0/0xd10 mm/memcontrol.c:2703
try_charge mm/memcontrol.c:2837 [inline]
mem_cgroup_charge_skmem+0x51/0x140 mm/memcontrol.c:7290
sock_reserve_memory+0xb1/0x390 net/core/sock.c:1025
sk_setsockopt+0x800/0x1e70 net/core/sock.c:1525
udp_lib_setsockopt+0x99/0x6c0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2692
udp_setsockopt+0x73/0xa0 net/ipv4/udp.c:2817
sock_common_setsockopt+0x61/0x70 net/core/sock.c:3668
__sys_setsockopt+0x1c3/0x230 net/socket.c:2271
__do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2282 [inline]
__se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2279 [inline]
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x66/0x80 net/socket.c:2279
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

value changed: 0xffff8881382d52c0 -> 0xffff888138893740

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 19632 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-syzkaller-00387-g534293368afa #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/02/2023

Fix it by using READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for all accesses to
stock->cached_objcg.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 18, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 18, 2025
Last updated Dec 11, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(3rd percentile)

Weaknesses

NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2023-53401

GHSA ID

GHSA-67c3-x939-573c

Source code

No known source code

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