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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53560"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:17:04.299Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:30.854Z"
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-2023-53560"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53560.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53560"
title: "tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables\n\nHist triggers can have referenced variables without having direct\nvariables fields. This can be the case if referenced variables are added\nfor trigger actions. In this case the newly added references will not\nhave field variables. Not taking such referenced variables into\nconsideration can result in a bug where it would be possible to remove\nhist trigger with variables being refenced. This will result in a bug\nthat is easily reproducable like so\n\n$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing\n$ echo 'synthetic_sys_enter char[] comm; long id' \u003e\u003e synthetic_events\n$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' \u003e\u003e events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger\n$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' \u003e\u003e events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger\n$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' \u003e\u003e events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger\n\n[  100.263533] ==================================================================\n[  100.264634] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180\n[  100.265520] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810375d0f0 by task bash/439\n[  100.266320]\n[  100.266533] CPU: 2 PID: 439 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1 #4\n[  100.267277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-20220807_005459-localhost 04/01/2014\n[  100.268561] Call Trace:\n[  100.268902]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  100.269189]  dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70\n[  100.269680]  print_report+0xc5/0x600\n[  100.270165]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180\n[  100.270697]  ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x80/0x1f0\n[  100.271389]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180\n[  100.271913]  kasan_report+0xbd/0x100\n[  100.272380]  ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180\n[  100.272920]  __asan_load8+0x71/0xa0\n[  100.273377]  resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180\n[  100.273888]  event_hist_trigger+0x749/0x860\n[  100.274505]  ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x50\n[  100.275024]  ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40\n[  100.275536]  ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger+0x10/0x10\n[  100.276138]  ? ksys_write+0xd1/0x170\n[  100.276607]  ? do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90\n[  100.277099]  ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n[  100.277771]  ? destroy_hist_data+0x446/0x470\n[  100.278324]  ? event_hist_trigger_parse+0xa6c/0x3860\n[  100.278962]  ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger_parse+0x10/0x10\n[  100.279627]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20\n[  100.280177]  ? mutex_unlock+0x85/0xd0\n[  100.280660]  ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10\n[  100.281200]  ? kfree+0x7b/0x120\n[  100.281619]  ? ____kasan_slab_free+0x15d/0x1d0\n[  100.282197]  ? event_trigger_write+0xac/0x100\n[  100.282764]  ? __kasan_slab_free+0x16/0x20\n[  100.283293]  ? __kmem_cache_free+0x153/0x2f0\n[  100.283844]  ? sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0xb1/0x250\n[  100.284550]  ? __pfx_sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0x10/0x10\n[  100.285221]  ? event_trigger_write+0xbc/0x100\n[  100.285781]  ? __kasan_check_read+0x15/0x20\n[  100.286321]  ? __bitmap_weight+0x66/0xa0\n[  100.286833]  ? _find_next_bit+0x46/0xe0\n[  100.287334]  ? task_mm_cid_work+0x37f/0x450\n[  100.287872]  event_triggers_call+0x84/0x150\n[  100.288408]  trace_event_buffer_commit+0x339/0x430\n[  100.289073]  ? ring_buffer_event_data+0x3f/0x60\n[  100.292189]  trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0x8b/0xe0\n[  100.295434]  syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x18f/0x1b0\n[  100.298653]  syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x40\n[  100.301808]  do_syscall_64+0x1a/0x90\n[  100.304748]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n[  100.307775] RIP: 0033:0x7f686c75c1cb\n[  100.310617] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 65 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 21 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 35 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48\n[  100.317847] RSP: 002b:00007ffc60137a38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000021\n[  100.321200] RA\n---truncated---"
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