CVE-2023-53790
CVE-2023-53790CVE-2023-53790
Description
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
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |