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GHSA-6W76-JQM9-9Q43

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-16 15:32 – Updated: 2025-12-03 18:30

Details

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2023-53290 (GCVE-0-2023-53290)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 08:11 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:42

Title

samples/bpf: Fix fout leak in hbm's run_bpf_prog

Summary

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.

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:10 UTC

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7056 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7ec2f424f6edad34…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7560ed6592ff40775…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3e6e252d74f20f6f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2065b8b0a215bc6a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/edf37bc8b03d3f948…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23acb14af1914010d…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < a7ec2f424f6edad34651137783a0a59eca9aa37e (git) Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < 7560ed6592ff4077528c239c71e91b19de985b97 (git) Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < e3e6e252d74f20f6fc610c7fef3ae7dda0109a6f (git) Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < f2065b8b0a215bc6aa061287a2e3d9eab2446422 (git) Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < edf37bc8b03d3f948e679b2fd2d14464495f5d1b (git) Affected: a1270fe95b74eb3195b107c494ed1f11b932a278 , < 23acb14af1914010dd0aae1bbb7fab28bf518b8e (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.1 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.244 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.181 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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