CVE-2023-54171
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
30/12/2025
Last modified:
31/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
tracing: Fix memory leak of iter->temp when reading trace_pipe<br />
<br />
kmemleak reports:<br />
unreferenced object 0xffff88814d14e200 (size 256):<br />
comm "cat", pid 336, jiffies 4294871818 (age 779.490s)<br />
hex dump (first 32 bytes):<br />
04 00 01 03 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................<br />
0c d8 c8 9b ff ff ff ff 04 5a ca 9b ff ff ff ff .........Z......<br />
backtrace:<br />
[] __kmalloc+0x4f/0x140<br />
[] trace_find_next_entry+0xbb/0x1d0<br />
[] trace_print_lat_context+0xaf/0x4e0<br />
[] print_trace_line+0x3e0/0x950<br />
[] tracing_read_pipe+0x2d9/0x5a0<br />
[] vfs_read+0x143/0x520<br />
[] ksys_read+0xbd/0x160<br />
[] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90<br />
[] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8<br />
<br />
when reading file &#39;trace_pipe&#39;, &#39;iter->temp&#39; is allocated or relocated<br />
in trace_find_next_entry() but not freed before &#39;trace_pipe&#39; is closed.<br />
<br />
To fix it, free &#39;iter->temp&#39; in tracing_release_pipe().
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a1e793e021d75cd0accd8f329ec9456e5cd105e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f42d57a76e7e96585f08855554e002218cbca0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/954792db9f61b6c0b8a94b8831fed5f146014029
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be970e22c53d5572b2795b79da9716ada937023b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5a821896360cc8b93a15bd888fabc858c038dc0



