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CVE-2023-53221

Estado: ModificadaMedia (5.5)—

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure

If it fails to attach fentry, the allocated bpf trampoline image will be left in the system. That can be verified by checking /proc/kallsyms.

This meamleak can be verified by a simple bpf program as follows:

It will fail to attach trap_init because this function is freed after kernel init, and then we can find the trampoline image is left in the system by checking /proc/kallsyms.

Note that there are two left bpf trampoline images, that is because the libbpf will fallback to raw tracepoint if -EINVAL is returned.

Detalles técnicos trazas, registros y código del informe original
  SEC("fentry/trap_init")
  int fentry_run()
  {
      return 0;
  }

  $ tail /proc/kallsyms
  ffffffffc0613000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1  [bpf]
  ffffffffc06c3000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1  [bpf]

  $ bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux | grep "FUNC 'trap_init'"
  [2522] FUNC 'trap_init' type_id=119 linkage=static

  $ echo $((6442453466 & 0x7fffffff))
  2522

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Linux — Linux Kernel

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