CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53649
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-07
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf trace: Really free the evsel->priv area
In 3cb4d5e00e037c70 ("perf trace: Free syscall tp fields in
evsel->priv") it only was freeing if strcmp(evsel->tp_format->system,
"syscalls") returned zero, while the corresponding initialization of
evsel->priv was being performed if it was _not_ zero, i.e. if the tp
system wasn't 'syscalls'.
Just stop looking for that and free it if evsel->priv was set, which
should be equivalent.
Also use the pre-existing evsel_trace__delete() function.
This resolves these leaks, detected with:
$ make EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address" BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 CORESIGHT=1 O=/tmp/build/perf-tools-next -C tools/perf install-bin
=================================================================
==481565==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
Direct leak of 40 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x7f7343cba097 in calloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xba097)
#1 0x987966 in zalloc (/home/acme/bin/perf+0x987966)
#2 0x52f9b9 in evsel_trace__new /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:307
#3 0x52f9b9 in evsel__syscall_tp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:333
#4 0x52f9b9 in evsel__init_raw_syscall_tp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:458
#5 0x52f9b9 in perf_evsel__raw_syscall_newtp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:480
#6 0x540e8b in trace__add_syscall_newtp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:3212
#7 0x540e8b in trace__run /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:3891
#8 0x540e8b in cmd_trace /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:5156
#9 0x5ef262 in run_builtin /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:323
#10 0x4196da in handle_internal_command /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:377
#11 0x4196da in run_argv /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:421
#12 0x4196da in main /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:537
#13 0x7f7342c4a50f in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2750f)
Direct leak of 40 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:
#0 0x7f7343cba097 in calloc (/lib64/libasan.so.8+0xba097)
#1 0x987966 in zalloc (/home/acme/bin/perf+0x987966)
#2 0x52f9b9 in evsel_trace__new /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:307
#3 0x52f9b9 in evsel__syscall_tp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:333
#4 0x52f9b9 in evsel__init_raw_syscall_tp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:458
#5 0x52f9b9 in perf_evsel__raw_syscall_newtp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:480
#6 0x540dd1 in trace__add_syscall_newtp /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:3205
#7 0x540dd1 in trace__run /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:3891
#8 0x540dd1 in cmd_trace /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c:5156
#9 0x5ef262 in run_builtin /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:323
#10 0x4196da in handle_internal_command /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:377
#11 0x4196da in run_argv /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:421
#12 0x4196da in main /home/acme/git/perf-tools-next/tools/perf/perf.c:537
#13 0x7f7342c4a50f in __libc_start_call_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2750f)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 80 byte(s) leaked in 2 allocation(s).
[root@quaco ~]#
With this we plug all leaks with "perf trace sleep 1".
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14.1 < 5.15.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.5.4)
• linux linux kernel 5.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27f396f64537b1ae48d0644d7cbf0d250b3c0b33 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62dd514c34be63d3d5cae1f52a7e8b96c6dd6630 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7962ef13651a9163f07b530607392ea123482e8a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3bc668581e71e7c3bc7eb1d647f25f8db222163 Patch