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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53024" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-03-27T16:43:49.824Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:27:44.578Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53024" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53024.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53024" title: "bpf: Fix pointer-leak due to insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix pointer-leak due to insufficient speculative store bypass mitigation\n\nTo mitigate Spectre v4, 2039f26f3aca (\"bpf: Fix leakage due to\ninsufficient speculative store bypass mitigation\") inserts lfence\ninstructions after 1) initializing a stack slot and 2) spilling a\npointer to the stack.\n\nHowever, this does not cover cases where a stack slot is first\ninitialized with a pointer (subject to sanitization) but then\noverwritten with a scalar (not subject to sanitization because\nthe slot was already initialized). In this case, the second write\nmay be subject to speculative store bypass (SSB) creating a\nspeculative pointer-as-scalar type confusion. This allows the\nprogram to subsequently leak the numerical pointer value using,\nfor example, a branch-based cache side channel.\n\nTo fix this, also sanitize scalars if they write a stack slot\nthat previously contained a pointer. Assuming that pointer-spills\nare only generated by LLVM on register-pressure, the performance\nimpact on most real-world BPF programs should be small.\n\nThe following unprivileged BPF bytecode drafts a minimal exploit\nand the mitigation:\n\n [...]\n // r6 = 0 or 1 (skalar, unknown user input)\n // r7 = accessible ptr for side channel\n // r10 = frame pointer (fp), to be leaked\n //\n r9 = r10 # fp alias to encourage ssb\n *(u64 *)(r9 - 8) = r10 // fp[-8] = ptr, to be leaked\n // lfence added here because of pointer spill to stack.\n //\n // Ommitted: Dummy bpf_ringbuf_output() here to train alias predictor\n // for no r9-r10 dependency.\n //\n *(u64 *)(r10 - 8) = r6 // fp[-8] = scalar, overwrites ptr\n // 2039f26f3aca: no lfence added because stack slot was not STACK_INVALID,\n // store may be subject to SSB\n //\n // fix: also add an lfence when the slot contained a ptr\n //\n r8 = *(u64 *)(r9 - 8)\n // r8 = architecturally a scalar, speculatively a ptr\n //\n // leak ptr using branch-based cache side channel:\n r8 &= 1 // choose bit to leak\n if r8 == 0 goto SLOW // no mispredict\n // architecturally dead code if input r6 is 0,\n // only executes speculatively iff ptr bit is 1\n r8 = *(u64 *)(r7 + 0) # encode bit in cache (0: slow, 1: fast)\nSLOW:\n [...]\n\nAfter running this, the program can time the access to *(r7 + 0) to\ndetermine whether the chosen pointer bit was 0 or 1. Repeat this 64\ntimes to recover the whole address on amd64.\n\nIn summary, sanitization can only be skipped if one scalar is\noverwritten with another scalar. Scalar-confusion due to speculative\nstore bypass can not lead to invalid accesses because the pointer\nbounds deducted during verification are enforced using branchless\nlogic. See 979d63d50c0c (\"bpf: prevent out of bounds speculation on\npointer arithmetic\") for details.\n\nDo not make the mitigation depend on !env-\u003eallow_{uninit_stack,ptr_leaks}\nbecause speculative leaks are likely unexpected if these were enabled.\nFor example, leaking the address to a protected log file may be acceptable\nwhile disabling the mitigation might unintentionally leak the address\ninto the cached-state of a map that is accessible to unprivileged\nprocesses." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"872968502114d68c21419cf7eb5ab97717e7b803","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aae109414a57ab4164218f36e2e4a17f027fcaaa"},{"version":"f5893af2704eb763eb982f01d573f5b19f06b623","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"81b3374944d201872cfcf82730a7860f8e7c31dd"},{"version":"0e9280654aa482088ee6ef3deadef331f5ac5fb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da75dec7c6617bddad418159ffebcb133f008262"},{"version":"2039f26f3aca5b0e419b98f65dd36481337b86ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01bdcc73dbe7be3ad4d4ee9a59b71e42f461a528"},{"version":"2039f26f3aca5b0e419b98f65dd36481337b86ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b0c89ef025562161242a7c19b213bd6b272e93df"},{"version":"2039f26f3aca5b0e419b98f65dd36481337b86ee","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4f4db47794c9f474b184ee1418f42e6a07412b6"},{"version":"0b27bdf02c400684225ee5ee99970bcbf5082282","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4.19.207","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19.272"},{"version":"5.4.146","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.4.231"},{"version":"5.10.56","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.166"},{"version":"5.13.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.14"},{"version":"4.19.272","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.231","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.166","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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