CVE-2023-53686 (published 2025-10-07)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/handshake: fix null-ptr-deref in handshake_nl_done_doit()

We should not call trace_handshake_cmd_done_err() if socket lookup has failed.

Also we should call trace_handshake_cmd_done_err() before releasing the file,
otherwise dereferencing sock->sk can return garbage.

This also reverts 7afc6d0a107f ("net/handshake: Fix uninitialized local variable")

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfff800000000003
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000005
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[dfff800000000003] address between user and kernel address ranges
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 5986 Comm: syz-executor292 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc7-syzkaller-gfe4469582053 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/26/2023
pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : handshake_nl_done_doit+0x198/0x9c8 net/handshake/netlink.c:193
lr : handshake_nl_done_doit+0x180/0x9c8
sp : ffff800096e37180
x29: ffff800096e37200 x28: 1ffff00012dc6e34 x27: dfff800000000000
x26: ffff800096e373d0 x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 00000000ffffffa8
x23: ffff800096e373f0 x22: 1ffff00012dc6e38 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: ffff800096e371c0 x19: 0000000000000018 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff800080516cc4 x15: 0000000000000001
x14: 1fffe0001b14aa3b x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000003
x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : ffff800080afe47c x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff800080a88078
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 00000000ffffffa8 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
handshake_nl_done_doit+0x198/0x9c8 net/handshake/netlink.c:193
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:970 [inline]
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1050 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x96c/0xc50 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1067
netlink_rcv_skb+0x214/0x3c4 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2549
genl_rcv+0x38/0x50 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1078
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x660/0x8d4 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365
netlink_sendmsg+0x834/0xb18 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1914
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:748 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x56c/0x840 net/socket.c:2494
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2548 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x26c/0x33c net/socket.c:2577
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]
__arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x80/0x94 net/socket.c:2584
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:37 [inline]
invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:51
el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:136
do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:155
el0_svc+0x58/0x16c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:678
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xfc arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:696
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:591
Code: 12800108 b90043e8 910062b3 d343fe68 (387b6908)
Severity: MEDIUM (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-476
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel