CVE-2023-53560CWE-416

CVE-2023-53560

High · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables

Hist triggers can have referenced variables without having direct

variables fields. This can be the case if referenced variables are added

for trigger actions. In this case the newly added references will not

have field variables. Not taking such referenced variables into

consideration can result in a bug where it would be possible to remove

hist trigger with variables being refenced. This will result in a bug

that is easily reproducable like so

$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing

$ echo 'synthetic_sys_enter char[] comm; long id' >> synthetic_events

$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger

$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger

$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger

[ 100.263533] ==================================================================

[ 100.264634] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180

[ 100.265520] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810375d0f0 by task bash/439

[ 100.266320]

[ 100.266533] CPU: 2 PID: 439 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1 #4

[ 100.267277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-20220807_005459-localhost 04/01/2014

[ 100.268561] Call Trace:

[ 100.268902] <TASK>

[ 100.269189] dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70

[ 100.269680] print_report+0xc5/0x600

[ 100.270165] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180

[ 100.270697] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x80/0x1f0

[ 100.271389] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180

[ 100.271913] kasan_report+0xbd/0x100

[ 100.272380] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180

[ 100.272920] __asan_load8+0x71/0xa0

[ 100.273377] resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180

[ 100.273888] event_hist_trigger+0x749/0x860

[ 100.274505] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x50

[ 100.275024] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40

[ 100.275536] ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger+0x10/0x10

[ 100.276138] ? ksys_write+0xd1/0x170

[ 100.276607] ? do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90

[ 100.277099] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

[ 100.277771] ? destroy_hist_data+0x446/0x470

[ 100.278324] ? event_hist_trigger_parse+0xa6c/0x3860

[ 100.278962] ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger_parse+0x10/0x10

[ 100.279627] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20

[ 100.280177] ? mutex_unlock+0x85/0xd0

[ 100.280660] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10

[ 100.281200] ? kfree+0x7b/0x120

[ 100.281619] ? ____kasan_slab_free+0x15d/0x1d0

[ 100.282197] ? event_trigger_write+0xac/0x100

[ 100.282764] ? __kasan_slab_free+0x16/0x20

[ 100.283293] ? __kmem_cache_free+0x153/0x2f0

[ 100.283844] ? sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0xb1/0x250

[ 100.284550] ? __pfx_sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0x10/0x10

[ 100.285221] ? event_trigger_write+0xbc/0x100

[ 100.285781] ? __kasan_check_read+0x15/0x20

[ 100.286321] ? __bitmap_weight+0x66/0xa0

[ 100.286833] ? _find_next_bit+0x46/0xe0

[ 100.287334] ? task_mm_cid_work+0x37f/0x450

[ 100.287872] event_triggers_call+0x84/0x150

[ 100.288408] trace_event_buffer_commit+0x339/0x430

[ 100.289073] ? ring_buffer_event_data+0x3f/0x60

[ 100.292189] trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0x8b/0xe0

[ 100.295434] syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x18f/0x1b0

[ 100.298653] syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x40

[ 100.301808] do_syscall_64+0x1a/0x90

[ 100.304748] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

[ 100.307775] RIP: 0033:0x7f686c75c1cb

[ 100.310617] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 65 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 21 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 35 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48

[ 100.317847] RSP: 002b:00007ffc60137a38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000021

[ 100.321200] RA

---truncated---

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00149 · 3.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.17, < 4.19.2914.19.291
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2515.4.251
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1885.10.188
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1215.15.121
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.406.1.40
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.4.56.4.5
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:17Z
    tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables
    cvelistv5