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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 16, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53296

CVE-2023-53296

Description

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

sctp: check send stream number after wait_for_sndbuf

This patch fixes a corner case where the asoc out stream count may change after wait_for_sndbuf.

When the main thread in the client starts a connection, if its out stream count is set to N while the in stream count in the server is set to N - 2, another thread in the client keeps sending the msgs with stream number N - 1, and waits for sndbuf before processing INIT_ACK.

However, after processing INIT_ACK, the out stream count in the client is shrunk to N - 2, the same to the in stream count in the server. The crash occurs when the thread waiting for sndbuf is awake and sends the msg in a non-existing stream(N - 1), the call trace is as below:

KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000038-0x000000000000003f] Call Trace:

sctp_cmd_send_msg net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1114 [inline] sctp_cmd_interpreter net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1777 [inline] sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1199 [inline] sctp_do_sm+0x197d/0x5310 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1170 sctp_primitive_SEND+0x9f/0xc0 net/sctp/primitive.c:163 sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x10eb/0x1a30 net/sctp/socket.c:1868 sctp_sendmsg+0x8d4/0x1d90 net/sctp/socket.c:2026 inet_sendmsg+0x9d/0xe0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:825 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:722 [inline] sock_sendmsg+0xde/0x190 net/socket.c:745

The fix is to add an unlikely check for the send stream number after the thread wakes up from the wait_for_sndbuf.

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  • Linux/Kernel8 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.15,<4.19.281
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 4.15
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 4.15.0, < 4.19.281

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