CVE-2023-54171
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe kmemleak reports: unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256): comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff .........Z...... backtrace: [<ffffffff9bdff18f>] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140 [<ffffffff9bc9238b>] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0 [<ffffffff9bc9caef>] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0 [<ffffffff9bc94490>] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950 [<ffffffff9bc95499>] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0 [<ffffffff9bf03a43>] vfs_read+0x143/0x520 [<ffffffff9bf04c2d>] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160 [<ffffffff9d0f0edf>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [<ffffffff9d2000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8 when reading file 'trace_pipe', 'iter->temp' is allocated or relocated in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before 'trace_pipe' is closed. To fix it, free 'iter->temp' in tracing_release_pipe().
Scoped product and version facts
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.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f | affected | git | 1a1e793e021d75cd0accd8f329ec9456e5cd105e | Unavailable | None listed |
| ff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f | affected | git | 954792db9f61b6c0b8a94b8831fed5f146014029 | Unavailable | None listed |
| ff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f | affected | git | be970e22c53d5572b2795b79da9716ada937023b | Unavailable | None listed |
| ff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f | affected | git | 3f42d57a76e7e96585f08855554e002218cbca0c | Unavailable | None listed |
| ff895103a84abc85a5f43ecabc7f67cf36e1348f | affected | git | d5a821896360cc8b93a15bd888fabc858c038dc0 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.7 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.7 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.10.188 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.10.* | None listed |
| 5.15.121 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.40 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.4.5 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.4.* | None listed |
| 6.5 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |