CVE-2023-53290
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Publication date: 2025-09-16
Last updated on: 2025-12-03
Assigner: kernel.org
Description
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog
Fix fout being fopen'ed but then not subsequently fclose'd. In the affected
branch, fout is otherwise going out of scope.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.1 (inc) to 5.4.244 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.5 (inc) to 5.10.181 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.11 (inc) to 5.15.113 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 5.16 (inc) to 6.1.30 (exc) |
| linux | linux_kernel | From 6.2 (inc) to 6.3.4 (exc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-401 | The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse. |
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AI Powered Q&A
Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability is a resource leak in the Linux kernel's BPF sample code where a file handle (fout) is opened with fopen but not properly closed with fclose, causing the file handle to go out of scope without being released.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The impact of this vulnerability is a file handle leak which could lead to resource exhaustion or unexpected behavior in the kernel due to unreleased file handles.
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