CVE-2023-53290

Updated on 16 Sep 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected packages:
linux @ 5.4.0 (+3 more)

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.

Fixes