CVE-2023-54033

Linux Kernel 5.11-5.14, 5.16-6.1.30, 6.2-6.3.4 - Memory Leak in BPF LRU and LRU_PERCPU Hash Maps

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix a memory leak in the LRU and LRU_PERCPU hash maps The LRU and LRU_PERCPU maps allocate a new element on update before locking the target hash table bucket. Right after that the maps try to lock the bucket. If this fails, then maps return -EBUSY to the caller without releasing the allocated element. This makes the element untracked: it doesn't belong to either of free lists, and it doesn't belong to the hash table, so can't be re-used; this eventually leads to the permanent -ENOMEM on LRU map updates, which is unexpected. Fix this by returning the element to the local free list if bucket locking fails.

Scores

EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.9%

Details

Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.115linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.31linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.3.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.11
Linux/Linux 20b6cc34ea74b6a84599c1f8a70f3315b56a1883 - 1a9e80f757bbb1562d82e350afce2bb2f712cc3d
Linux/Linux 20b6cc34ea74b6a84599c1f8a70f3315b56a1883 - 79ea1a12fb9a8275b6e19d4ca625dd872dedcbb9
Linux/Linux 20b6cc34ea74b6a84599c1f8a70f3315b56a1883 - 965e9cccbe6b9c7b379908cebcb5e3a47f20dd5e
Linux/Linux 20b6cc34ea74b6a84599c1f8a70f3315b56a1883 - b34ffb0c6d23583830f9327864b9c1f486003305
Linux/Linux 5.11
Linux/Linux 5.15.115 - 5.15.*
... and 3 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026