CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53221
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure
If it fails to attach fentry, the allocated bpf trampoline image will be
left in the system. That can be verified by checking /proc/kallsyms.
This meamleak can be verified by a simple bpf program as follows:
SEC("fentry/trap_init")
int fentry_run()
{
return 0;
}
It will fail to attach trap_init because this function is freed after
kernel init, and then we can find the trampoline image is left in the
system by checking /proc/kallsyms.
$ tail /proc/kallsyms
ffffffffc0613000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf]
ffffffffc06c3000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf]
$ bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux | grep "FUNC 'trap_init'"
[2522] FUNC 'trap_init' type_id=119 linkage=static
$ echo $((6442453466 & 0x7fffffff))
2522
Note that there are two left bpf trampoline images, that is because the
libbpf will fallback to raw tracepoint if -EINVAL is returned.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.28 < 5.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11.11 < 5.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.12.1 < 6.1.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/108598c39eefbedc9882273ac0df96127a629220 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20109ddd5bea2c24d790debf5d02584ef24c3f5e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6aa27775db63ba8c7c73891c7dfb71ddc230c48d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f72c67d1a82dada7d6d504c806e111e913721a30 Patch