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CVE-2023-53020

kernel: l2tp: close all race conditions in l2tp_tunnel_register()

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.7

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 27, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

l2tp: close all race conditions in l2tp_tunnel_register()

The code in l2tp_tunnel_register() is racy in several ways:

  1. It modifies the tunnel socket after publishing it.

  2. It calls setup_udp_tunnel_sock() on an existing socket without locking.

  3. It changes sock lock class on fly, which triggers many syzbot reports.

This patch amends all of them by moving socket initialization code before publishing and under sock lock. As suggested by Jakub, the l2tp lockdep class is not necessary as we can just switch to bh_lock_sock_nested().

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')