CVE-2023-53290 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeCWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog Fix fout being fopen'ed but then not subsequently fclose'd. In the affected branch, fout is otherwise going out of scope.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.1 — 5.4.244+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxa1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 — a7ec2f424f6edad34651137783a0a59eca9aa37e+6
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-6w76-jqm9-9q43: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog Fix fout being fopen'ed but the↗2025-09-16
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OSV
CVE-2023-53290: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog Fix fout being fopen'ed but then↗2025-09-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service due to file descriptor leak in BPF sample code↗2025-09-16
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Debian
CVE-2023-53290: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: samples/bpf...↗2023
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