CVE-2023-54033 | bpf: fix a memory leak in the LRU and LRU_PERCPU hash maps

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: fix a memory leak in the LRU and LRU_PERCPU hash maps The LRU and LRU_PERCPU maps allocate a new element on update before locking the target hash table bucket. Right after that the maps try to lock the bucket. If this fails, then maps return -EBUSY to the caller without releasing the allocated element. This makes the element untracked: it doesn't belong to either of free lists, and it doesn't belong to the hash table, so can't be re-used; this eventually leads to the permanent -ENOMEM on LRU map updates, which is unexpected. Fix this by returning the element to the local free list if bucket locking fails.

Published: 2025-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2023-54033 is rated Low Risk (5.3/100): low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.16%). Mandatory action: Low composite risk—no urgent action required; patch on your normal maintenance cycle and revisit priority if CVSS or EPSS increases.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2023-54033

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.02% 0.16% +0.14%
2 2025-12-24 0.02%

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Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2023-54033

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Weakness enumeration for CVE-2023-54033

OS Trackers for CVE-2023-54033

vendor priority summary link
debian unimportant CVE-2023-54033 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-54033
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54033
suse medium CVE-2023-54033 severity moderate: SUSE including 26 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default, dlm-kmp-default, …), 221 product×package rows across 45 product lines (SLES-LTSS-TERADATA 15 SP2, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP3, … (45 product lines)): Known Not Affected 221. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54033/
ubuntu medium CVE-2023-54033 medium priority: Ubuntu including 157 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1405 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1010, ignored 173, released 111, not-affected 110, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-54033

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2023-54033

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References for CVE-2023-54033

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