CVE-2023-53790

Estado: AplazadaAlta (7.8)—

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:

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.

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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.

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 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>

CVSS

Versión: 3.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Puntuación base: 7.8

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.15%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 4
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation85 %
Impacto principalT1499.004 Application or System Exploitationimpact75 %

Acceso local (AV:L, PR:L) sin interacción de usuario que causa hard-lockup del kernel por race condition en BPF memory allocator, resultando en denegación de servicio.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.

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