CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53441
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-18
- 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: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem
Syzkaller reported a memory leak as follows:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xff110001198ef748 (size 192):
comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 4a 19 00 00 80 ad e3 e4 fe ff c0 00 ....J...........
00 b2 d3 0c 01 00 11 ff 28 f5 8e 19 01 00 11 ff ........(.......
backtrace:
[<ffffffffadd28087>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0xf7/0xb00
[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0
[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520
[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720
[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90
[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40
[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xff110001198ef528 (size 192):
comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffffadd281f0>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x260/0xb00
[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0
[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520
[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720
[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90
[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40
[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xff1100010fd93d68 (size 8):
comm "syz-executor.3", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........
backtrace:
[<ffffffffade5db3e>] kvmalloc_node+0x11e/0x170
[<ffffffffadd28280>] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x2f0/0xb00
[<ffffffffadd28d8e>] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0
[<ffffffffadc6d0fd>] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520
[<ffffffffadc7349b>] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720
[<ffffffffadc7d983>] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90
[<ffffffffb029cc80>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40
[<ffffffffb0400099>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6
In the cpu_map_update_elem flow, when kthread_stop is called before
calling the threadfn of rcpu->kthread, since the KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP bit
of kthread has been set by kthread_stop, the threadfn of rcpu->kthread
will never be executed, and rcpu->refcnt will never be 0, which will
lead to the allocated rcpu, rcpu->queue and rcpu->queue->queue cannot be
released.
Calling kthread_stop before executing kthread's threadfn will return
-EINTR. We can complete the release of memory resources in this state.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 5.15.121)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4369016497319a9635702da010d02af1ebb1849d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a957ac8e0b5ffb5797382a6adbafd005a5f72851 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b11a9b4f28cb6ff69ef7e69809e5f7fffeac9030 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d26299f50f5ea8f0aeb5d49e659c31f64233c816 Patch