CVE-2023-53221

bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure

Medium · published September 15, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure

If it fails to attach fentry, the allocated bpf trampoline image will be

left in the system. That can be verified by checking /proc/kallsyms.

This meamleak can be verified by a simple bpf program as follows:

SEC("fentry/trap_init")

int fentry_run()

{

return 0;

}

It will fail to attach trap_init because this function is freed after

kernel init, and then we can find the trampoline image is left in the

system by checking /proc/kallsyms.

$ tail /proc/kallsyms

ffffffffc0613000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf]

ffffffffc06c3000 t bpf_trampoline_6442453466_1 [bpf]

$ bpftool btf dump file /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux | grep "FUNC 'trap_init'"

[2522] FUNC 'trap_init' type_id=119 linkage=static

$ echo $((6442453466 & 0x7fffffff))

2522

Note that there are two left bpf trampoline images, that is because the

libbpf will fallback to raw tracepoint if -EINVAL is returned.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00159 · 4.7th percentile
Published
2025-09-15T14:21Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 SEP 14:21Z
    bpf: Fix memleak due to fentry attach failure
    cvelistv5