CVE-2023-54269

linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use...

CVE-2023-54269 is fixed in 76 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2023-228, released June 21, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Urgent.

Urgent
CVSS
9.8
critical
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0055
46th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: double free xprt_ctxt while still in use When an RPC request is deferred, the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is moved out of the svc_rqst into the svc_deferred_req. When the deferred request is revisited, the pointer is copied into the new svc_rqst - and also remains in the svc_deferred_req. In the (rare?) case that the request is deferred a second time, the old svc_deferred_req is reused - it still has all the correct content. However in that case the rq_xprt_ctxt pointer is NOT cleared so that when xpo_release_xprt is called, the ctxt is freed (UDP) or possible added to a free list (RDMA). When the deferred request is revisited for a second time, it will reference this ctxt which may be invalid, and the free the object a second time which is likely to oops. So change svc_defer() to *always* clear rq_xprt_ctxt, and assert that the value is now stored in the svc_deferred_req.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
bpftool · RHEL 9 0:7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
bpftool · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-64k · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-devel-matched · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-64k-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-abi-stablelists · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-abi-stablelists · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-core · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-debug · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-core · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-debug-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-devel · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-debug-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-devel-matched · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-modules · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-debug-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-modules-extra · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-debug-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debug-uki-virt · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-devel · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-devel-matched · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-doc · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-doc · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-libbpf · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-livepatch-6.1.34-56.100 · amzn 2023 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-modules · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-modules-extra · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-kvm · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-debug-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-kvm · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-rt-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-tools · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-tools · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
kernel-tools-libs · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-tools-libs · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-tools-libs-devel · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-tools-libs-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-uki-virt · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-zfcpdump · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-core · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-zfcpdump-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-devel · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-zfcpdump-devel · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-devel-matched · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-modules · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-zfcpdump-modules · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-core · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
kernel-zfcpdump-modules-extra · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
libperf · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.37-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54269 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.3.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54269 Dec 30, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.3.7-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54269 Dec 30, 2025
perf · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
perf · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
perf · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
python3-perf · RHEL 8 0:4.18.0-553.22.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:7000 Sep 24, 2024
python3-perf · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
python3-perf · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
python3-perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.34-56.100.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-228 Jun 21, 2023
rtla · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023
rv · RHEL 9 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583 Nov 7, 2023

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