CVE-2023-53557

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in fprobe Handler

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fprobe: Release rethook after the ftrace_ops is unregistered While running bpf selftests it's possible to get following fault: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address \ 0x6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NOPTI ... Call Trace: <TASK> fprobe_handler+0xc1/0x270 ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_bpf_testmod_init+0x10/0x10 ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10 ? bpf_fentry_test1+0x5/0x10 ? bpf_testmod_init+0x22/0x80 ? do_one_initcall+0x63/0x2e0 ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40 ? kmalloc_trace+0xaf/0xc0 ? do_init_module+0x60/0x250 ? __do_sys_finit_module+0xac/0x120 ? do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90 ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc </TASK> In unregister_fprobe function we can't release fp->rethook while it's possible there are some of its users still running on another cpu. Moving rethook_free call after fp->ops is unregistered with unregister_ftrace_function call.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 3.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 6.1.40linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.4.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 5.18
Linux/Linux 5b0ab78998e32564a011b14c4c7f9c81e2d42b9d - 03d63255a5783243c110aec5e6ae2f1475c3be76
Linux/Linux 5b0ab78998e32564a011b14c4c7f9c81e2d42b9d - 5f81018753dfd4989e33ece1f0cb6b8aae498b82
Linux/Linux 5b0ab78998e32564a011b14c4c7f9c81e2d42b9d - ce3ec57faff559ccae1e0150c1f077eb2df648a4
Linux/Linux 6.1.40 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.4.5 - 6.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.5
... and 2 more
Published Oct 04, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026