CVE-2023-54171

unknown

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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().

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`6.1.52-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`5.10.191-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`6.4.11-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`6.4.11-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`6.4.11-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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