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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53375" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-18T13:33:21.664Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:43:44.032Z" 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-2023-53375" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53375.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53375" title: "tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Free error logs of tracing instances\n\nWhen a tracing instance is removed, the error messages that hold errors\nthat occurred in the instance needs to be freed. The following reports a\nmemory leak:\n\n # cd /sys/kernel/tracing\n # mkdir instances/foo\n # echo 'hist:keys=x' \u003e instances/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger\n # cat instances/foo/error_log\n [ 117.404795] hist:sched:sched_switch: error: Couldn't find field\n Command: hist:keys=x\n ^\n # rmdir instances/foo\n\nThen check for memory leaks:\n\n # echo scan \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\n # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810d8ec700 (size 192):\n comm \"bash\", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff `.ha....`.ha....\n a0 30 8c 83 ff ff ff ff 26 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 .0......&.......\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000dae26536\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0\n [\u003c00000000b2938940\u003e] tracing_log_err+0x277/0x2e0\n [\u003c000000004a0e1b07\u003e] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40\n [\u003c0000000023b24337\u003e] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0\n [\u003c00000000594ad074\u003e] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560\n [\u003c00000000293a9645\u003e] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0\n [\u003c000000005c22b4f2\u003e] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0\n [\u003c000000002cadc509\u003e] vfs_write+0x162/0x670\n [\u003c0000000059c3b9be\u003e] ksys_write+0xca/0x170\n [\u003c00000000f1cddc00\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0\n [\u003c00000000868ac68c\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\nunreferenced object 0xffff888170c35a00 (size 32):\n comm \"bash\", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 0a 20 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 3a 20 68 69 73 74 . Command: hist\n 3a 6b 65 79 73 3d 78 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :keys=x.........\n backtrace:\n [\u003c000000006a747de5\u003e] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x160\n [\u003c000000000039df5f\u003e] tracing_log_err+0x29b/0x2e0\n [\u003c000000004a0e1b07\u003e] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40\n [\u003c0000000023b24337\u003e] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0\n [\u003c00000000594ad074\u003e] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560\n [\u003c00000000293a9645\u003e] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0\n [\u003c000000005c22b4f2\u003e] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0\n [\u003c000000002cadc509\u003e] vfs_write+0x162/0x670\n [\u003c0000000059c3b9be\u003e] ksys_write+0xca/0x170\n [\u003c00000000f1cddc00\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0\n [\u003c00000000868ac68c\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc\n\nThe problem is that the error log needs to be freed when the instance is\nremoved." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"987f599fc556a4e64c405d8dde32c70311e8c278"},{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e36373aa5ffa8e00fe7c71b3209f6f17081e552"},{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33d5d4e67a0e13c3ca6257fa67bf6503bc000878"},{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c0cf0f55be043ef67c38f492aa37ed1986d2f6b6"},{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46771c34d6721abfd9e7903eaed2201051eebec6"},{"version":"2f754e771b1a6feba670782e82c45555984ac43b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3357c6e429643231e60447b52ffbb7ac895aca22"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.2"},{"version":"5.4.241","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.107","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","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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