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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53441" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-18T16:04:18.519Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:03.854Z" 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-2023-53441" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53441.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53441" title: "bpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: cpumap: Fix memory leak in cpu_map_update_elem\n\nSyzkaller reported a memory leak as follows:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xff110001198ef748 (size 192):\n comm \"syz-executor.3\", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 4a 19 00 00 80 ad e3 e4 fe ff c0 00 ....J...........\n 00 b2 d3 0c 01 00 11 ff 28 f5 8e 19 01 00 11 ff ........(.......\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffffadd28087\u003e] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0xf7/0xb00\n [\u003cffffffffadd28d8e\u003e] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0\n [\u003cffffffffadc6d0fd\u003e] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520\n [\u003cffffffffadc7349b\u003e] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720\n [\u003cffffffffadc7d983\u003e] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90\n [\u003cffffffffb029cc80\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40\n [\u003cffffffffb0400099\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xff110001198ef528 (size 192):\n comm \"syz-executor.3\", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffffadd281f0\u003e] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x260/0xb00\n [\u003cffffffffadd28d8e\u003e] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0\n [\u003cffffffffadc6d0fd\u003e] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520\n [\u003cffffffffadc7349b\u003e] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720\n [\u003cffffffffadc7d983\u003e] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90\n [\u003cffffffffb029cc80\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40\n [\u003cffffffffb0400099\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xff1100010fd93d68 (size 8):\n comm \"syz-executor.3\", pid 17672, jiffies 4298118891 (age 9.906s)\n hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffffade5db3e\u003e] kvmalloc_node+0x11e/0x170\n [\u003cffffffffadd28280\u003e] __cpu_map_entry_alloc+0x2f0/0xb00\n [\u003cffffffffadd28d8e\u003e] cpu_map_update_elem+0x2fe/0x3d0\n [\u003cffffffffadc6d0fd\u003e] bpf_map_update_value.isra.0+0x2bd/0x520\n [\u003cffffffffadc7349b\u003e] map_update_elem+0x4cb/0x720\n [\u003cffffffffadc7d983\u003e] __se_sys_bpf+0x8c3/0xb90\n [\u003cffffffffb029cc80\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40\n [\u003cffffffffb0400099\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6\n\nIn the cpu_map_update_elem flow, when kthread_stop is called before\ncalling the threadfn of rcpu-\u003ekthread, since the KTHREAD_SHOULD_STOP bit\nof kthread has been set by kthread_stop, the threadfn of rcpu-\u003ekthread\nwill never be executed, and rcpu-\u003erefcnt will never be 0, which will\nlead to the allocated rcpu, rcpu-\u003equeue and rcpu-\u003equeue-\u003equeue cannot be\nreleased.\n\nCalling kthread_stop before executing kthread's threadfn will return\n-EINTR. We can complete the release of memory resources in this state." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d26299f50f5ea8f0aeb5d49e659c31f64233c816"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b11a9b4f28cb6ff69ef7e69809e5f7fffeac9030"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a957ac8e0b5ffb5797382a6adbafd005a5f72851"},{"version":"6710e1126934d8b4372b4d2f9ae1646cd3f151bf","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4369016497319a9635702da010d02af1ebb1849d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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