CVE-2025-68263

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:ksmbd: ipc: fix use-after-free in ipc_msg_send_requestipc_msg_send_request() waits for a generic netlink reply using anipc_msg_table_entry on the stack. The generic netlink handler(handle_generic_event()/handle_response()) fills entry->response underipc_msg_table_lock, but ipc_msg_send_request() used to validate and freeentry->response without holding the same lock.Under high concurrency this allows a race where handle_response() iscopying data into entry->response while ipc_msg_send_request() has justfreed it, leading to a slab-use-after-free reported by KASAN inhandle_generic_event(): BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in handle_generic_event+0x3c4/0x5f0 [ksmbd] Write of size 12 at addr ffff888198ee6e20 by task pool/109349 ... Freed by task: kvfree ipc_msg_send_request [ksmbd] ksmbd_rpc_open -> ksmbd_session_rpc_open [ksmbd]Fix by:- Taking ipc_msg_table_lock in ipc_msg_send_request() while validating entry->response, freeing it when invalid, and removing the entry from ipc_msg_table.- Returning the final entry->response pointer to the caller only after the hash entry is removed under the lock.- Returning null in the error path, preserving the original API semantics.This makes all accesses to entry->response consistent withhandle_response(), which already updates and fills the response bufferunder ipc_msg_table_lock, and closes the race that allowed the UAF.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234