{
  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2023-53204",
  "modified": "2026-10-07T17:22:01Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2023-53204"
  ],
  "published": "2025-09-15T14:26:11Z",
  "summary": "af_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naf_unix: Fix data-races around user->unix_inflight.\n\nuser->unix_inflight is changed under spin_lock(unix_gc_lock),\nbut too_many_unix_fds() reads it locklessly.\n\nLet's annotate the write/read accesses to user->unix_inflight.\n\nBUG: KCSAN: data-race in unix_attach_fds / unix_inflight\n\nwrite to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44798 on cpu 1:\n unix_inflight+0x157/0x180 net/unix/scm.c:66\n unix_attach_fds+0x147/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:123\n unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]\n unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950\n unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]\n unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548\n __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nread to 0xffffffff8546f2d0 of 8 bytes by task 44814 on cpu 0:\n too_many_unix_fds net/unix/scm.c:101 [inline]\n unix_attach_fds+0x54/0x1e0 net/unix/scm.c:110\n unix_scm_to_skb net/unix/af_unix.c:1827 [inline]\n unix_dgram_sendmsg+0x46a/0x14f0 net/unix/af_unix.c:1950\n unix_seqpacket_sendmsg net/unix/af_unix.c:2308 [inline]\n unix_seqpacket_sendmsg+0xba/0x130 net/unix/af_unix.c:2292\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:725 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x148/0x160 net/socket.c:748\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x4e4/0x610 net/socket.c:2494\n ___sys_sendmsg+0xc6/0x140 net/socket.c:2548\n __sys_sendmsg+0x94/0x140 net/socket.c:2577\n __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2586 [inline]\n __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2584 [inline]\n __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x45/0x50 net/socket.c:2584\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nvalue changed: 0x000000000000000c -> 0x000000000000000d\n\nReported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:\nCPU: 0 PID: 44814 Comm: systemd-coredum Not tainted 6.4.0-11989-g6843306689af #6\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014",
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        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
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  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53204"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df97b5ea9f3ac9308c3a633524dab382cd59d9e5"
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    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-05-24T06:48:58Z"
  }
}
