Security Advisory

CVE-2023-54041

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-24 10:56:06
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:54:17
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers When removing provided buffers, io_buffer structs are not being disposed of, leading to a memory leak. They cant be freed individually, because they are allocated in page-sized groups. They need to be added to some free list instead, such as io_buffers_cache. All callers already hold the lock protecting it, apart from when destroying buffers, so had to extend the lock there.