CVE-2023-53790

linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Zeroing allocated object from slab in bpf m...

CVE-2023-53790 is fixed in 20 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2023-138, released March 20, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0015
4th percentile

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Zeroing allocated object from slab in bpf memory allocator Currently the freed element in bpf memory allocator may be immediately reused, for htab map the reuse will reinitialize special fields in map value (e.g., bpf_spin_lock), but lookup procedure may still access these special fields, and it may lead to hard-lockup as shown below: NMI backtrace for cpu 16 CPU: 16 PID: 2574 Comm: htab.bin Tainted: G L 6.1.0+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), RIP: 0010:queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x283/0x2c0 ...... Call Trace: <TASK> copy_map_value_locked+0xb7/0x170 bpf_map_copy_value+0x113/0x3c0 __sys_bpf+0x1c67/0x2780 __x64_sys_bpf+0x1c/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x30/0x60 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 ...... </TASK> For htab map, just like the preallocated case, these is no need to initialize these special fields in map value again once these fields have been initialized. For preallocated htab map, these fields are initialized through __GFP_ZERO in bpf_map_area_alloc(), so do the similar thing for non-preallocated htab in bpf memory allocator. And there is no need to use __GFP_ZERO for per-cpu bpf memory allocator, because __alloc_percpu_gfp() does it implicitly.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
bpftool-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-headers · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-livepatch-6.1.19-30.43 · amzn 2023 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
kernel-tools-devel · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
linux · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53790 Dec 9, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53790 Dec 9, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.1.20-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53790 Dec 9, 2025
perf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
python3-perf · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023
python3-perf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 6.1.19-30.43.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2023-138 Mar 20, 2023

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