CVE-2023-53075

HIGH

Linux Kernel 3.5-4.14.311 - Use-After-Free in ftrace lookup_rec Function

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookup_rec() when index is 0 KASAN reported follow problem: BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in lookup_rec Read of size 8 at addr ffff000199270ff0 by task modprobe CPU: 2 Comm: modprobe Call trace: kasan_report __asan_load8 lookup_rec ftrace_location arch_check_ftrace_location check_kprobe_address_safe register_kprobe When checking pg->records[pg->index - 1].ip in lookup_rec(), it can get a pg which is newly added to ftrace_pages_start in ftrace_process_locs(). Before the first pg->index++, index is 0 and accessing pg->records[-1].ip will cause this problem. Don't check the ip when pg->index is 0.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux < 3.5
Linux/Linux 3.5
Linux/Linux 4.14.311 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux 4.19.279 - 4.19.*
Linux/Linux 5.10.176 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.104 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.4.238 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.21 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.8 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
... and 10 more
Published May 02, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026