{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54142 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54142 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54142 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54142 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54142 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54142/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54142/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54142","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54142/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54142","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54142","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54142","GHSA-frp2-qrfx-2m63","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54142"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel GTP","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's GTP module allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().\n\nsyzkaller reported use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy(). [0]\n\nIt shows the same process freed sk and touched it illegally.\n\nCommit e198987e7dd7 (\"gtp: fix suspicious RCU usage\") added lock_sock()\nand release_sock() in __gtp_encap_destroy() to protect sk-\u003esk_user_data,\nbut release_sock() is called after sock_put() releases the last refcnt.\n\n[0]:\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178\nWrite of size 4 at addr ffff88800dbef398 by task syz-executor.2/2401\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 2401 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc5-01219-gfa0e21fa4443 #2\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x72/0xa0 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]\n print_report+0xcc/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:462\n kasan_report+0xb2/0xe0 mm/kasan/report.c:572\n check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:181 [inline]\n kasan_check_range+0x39/0x1c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:187\n instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:96 [inline]\n atomic_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:541 [inline]\n queued_spin_lock include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:111 [inline]\n do_raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:186 [inline]\n __raw_spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:127 [inline]\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x75/0xe0 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:178\n spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:355 [inline]\n release_sock+0x1f/0x1a0 net/core/sock.c:3526\n gtp_encap_disable_sock drivers/net/gtp.c:651 [inline]\n gtp_encap_disable+0xb9/0x220 drivers/net/gtp.c:664\n gtp_dev_uninit+0x19/0x50 drivers/net/gtp.c:728\n unregister_netdevice_many_notify+0x97e/0x1520 net/core/dev.c:10841\n rtnl_delete_link net/core/rtnetlink.c:3216 [inline]\n rtnl_dellink+0x3c0/0xb30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3268\n rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x450/0xb10 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6423\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x15d/0x450 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2548\n netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]\n netlink_unicast+0x700/0x930 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365\n netlink_sendmsg+0x91c/0xe30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1913\n sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:724 [inline]\n sock_sendmsg+0x1b7/0x200 net/socket.c:747\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x75a/0x990 net/socket.c:2493\n ___sys_sendmsg+0x11d/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2547\n __sys_sendmsg+0xfe/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2576\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nRIP: 0033:0x7f1168b1fe5d\nCode: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 73 9f 1b 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\nRSP: 002b:00007f1167edccc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004bbf80 RCX: 00007f1168b1fe5d\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000200002c0 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00000000004bbf80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 000000000000000b R14: 00007f1168b80530 R15: 0000000000000000\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 1483:\n kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45\n kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52\n __kasan_slab_alloc+0x\n---truncated---","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"gtp: Fix use-after-free in __gtp_encap_destroy().","id":"CVE-2023-54142","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":9,"next":{"headline":"media: mediatek: vcodec: fix resource leaks in vdec_msg_queue_init()","id":"CVE-2023-54143"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"wifi: ath11k: Add missing hw_ops-\u003eget_ring_selector() for IPQ5018","id":"CVE-2023-54141"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-24","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's GTP module allows attackers to potentially execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54142/"}