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CVE-2023-54041

io_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers When removing provided buffers, io_buffer structs are not being disposed of, leading to a memory leak. They can't be freed individually, because they are allocated in page-sized groups. They need to be added to some free list instead, such as io_buffers_cache. All callers already hold the lock protecting it, apart from when destroying buffers, so had to extend the lock there.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3 before ac48787f58d1068f4e06d627c1135784d64b4c72; affected cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3 before c117c15927772d1624c29c092b6bd3f47c7faa48; affected cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3 before b4a72c0589fdea6259720375426179888969d6a2
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.18; unaffected 0 before 5.18; unaffected 6.1.24 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2.11 through 6.2.*; unaffected 6.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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