# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54041"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:56:06.858Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:54:17.138Z"
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-2023-54041"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54041.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54041"
title: "io_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nio_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers\n\nWhen removing provided buffers, io_buffer structs are not being disposed\nof, leading to a memory leak. They can't be freed individually, because\nthey are allocated in page-sized groups. They need to be added to some\nfree list instead, such as io_buffers_cache. All callers already hold\nthe lock protecting it, apart from when destroying buffers, so had to\nextend the lock there."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac48787f58d1068f4e06d627c1135784d64b4c72"},{"version":"cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c117c15927772d1624c29c092b6bd3f47c7faa48"},{"version":"cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b4a72c0589fdea6259720375426179888969d6a2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"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"}]

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