Security Advisory

CVE-2023-54033

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-24 10:56:00
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:54:07
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix a memory leak in the LRU and LRU_PERCPU hash maps The LRU and LRU_PERCPU maps allocate a new element on update before locking the target hash table bucket. Right after that the maps try to lock the bucket. If this fails, then maps return -EBUSY to the caller without releasing the allocated element. This makes the element untracked: it doesnt belong to either of free lists, and it doesnt belong to the hash table, so cant be re-used; this eventually leads to the permanent -ENOMEM on LRU map updates, which is unexpected. Fix this by returning the element to the local free list if bucket locking fails.