CVE-2023-54041

io_uring: fix memory leak when removing provided buffers

N/A
Published: December 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:46 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.18 ≤ v < 6.1.245.18 ≤ v < 6.2.115.18 ≤ v < 6.35.18cc3cec8367cba76a8ae4c271eba8450f3efc1ba3
Vendor states this is fixed in ac48787f58d1068f4e06d627c1135784d64b4c72 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b4a72c0589fdea6259720375426179888969d6a2 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c117c15927772d1624c29c092b6bd3f47c7faa48 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.24 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.2.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.3 (unaffected)

Remediation

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