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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53793"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:50.132Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:38.130Z"
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-2023-53793"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53793.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53793"
title: "perf tool x86: Fix perf_env memory leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nperf tool x86: Fix perf_env memory leak\n\nFound by leak sanitizer:\n```\n==1632594==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks\n\nDirect leak of 21 byte(s) in 1 object(s) allocated from:\n    #0 0x7f2953a7077b in __interceptor_strdup ../../../../src/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:439\n    #1 0x556701d6fbbf in perf_env__read_cpuid util/env.c:369\n    #2 0x556701d70589 in perf_env__cpuid util/env.c:465\n    #3 0x55670204bba2 in x86__is_amd_cpu arch/x86/util/env.c:14\n    #4 0x5567020487a2 in arch__post_evsel_config arch/x86/util/evsel.c:83\n    #5 0x556701d8f78b in evsel__config util/evsel.c:1366\n    #6 0x556701ef5872 in evlist__config util/record.c:108\n    #7 0x556701cd6bcd in test__PERF_RECORD tests/perf-record.c:112\n    #8 0x556701cacd07 in run_test tests/builtin-test.c:236\n    #9 0x556701cacfac in test_and_print tests/builtin-test.c:265\n    #10 0x556701cadddb in __cmd_test tests/builtin-test.c:402\n    #11 0x556701caf2aa in cmd_test tests/builtin-test.c:559\n    #12 0x556701d3b557 in run_builtin tools/perf/perf.c:323\n    #13 0x556701d3bac8 in handle_internal_command tools/perf/perf.c:377\n    #14 0x556701d3be90 in run_argv tools/perf/perf.c:421\n    #15 0x556701d3c3f8 in main tools/perf/perf.c:537\n    #16 0x7f2952a46189 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58\n\nSUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: 21 byte(s) leaked in 1 allocation(s).\n```"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f7b58cbdb3ff36eba8622e67eee66c10dd1c9995","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75d65c1cc439606ada882755fd205d13c2c7907d"},{"version":"f7b58cbdb3ff36eba8622e67eee66c10dd1c9995","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"010139bfc6bb9ddab81dbc2cf71cd3a9c28adc7f"},{"version":"f7b58cbdb3ff36eba8622e67eee66c10dd1c9995","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f3daf02a41e3c11e1a473517a8a6169248fb8e7b"},{"version":"f7b58cbdb3ff36eba8622e67eee66c10dd1c9995","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99d4850062a84564f36923764bb93935ef2ed108"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.3.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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