Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting perf package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-PERF-14331875
  • published10 Dec 2025
  • disclosed8 Dec 2025

Introduced: 8 Dec 2025

CVE-2023-53746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-763  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 perf to version 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/vfio-ap: fix memory leak in vfio_ap device driver

The device release callback function invoked to release the matrix device uses the dev_get_drvdata(device *dev) function to retrieve the pointer to the vfio_matrix_dev object in order to free its storage. The problem is, this object is not stored as drvdata with the device; since the kfree function will accept a NULL pointer, the memory for the vfio_matrix_dev object is never freed.

Since the device being released is contained within the vfio_matrix_dev object, the container_of macro will be used to retrieve its pointer.

CVSS Base Scores

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