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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-53999

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 12/24/2025 6:15:52 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak

The flow rule can be splited, and the extra post_act rules are added
to post_act table. It's possible to trigger memleak when the rule
forwards packets from internal port and over tunnel, in the case that,
for example, CT 'new' state offload is allowed. As int_port object is
assigned to the flow attribute of post_act rule, and its refcnt is
incremented by mlx5e_tc_int_port_get(), but mlx5e_tc_int_port_put() is
not called, the refcnt is never decremented, then int_port is never
freed.

The kmemleak reports the following error:
unreferenced object 0xffff888128204b80 (size 64):
  comm "handler20", pid 50121, jiffies 4296973009 (age 642.932s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    01 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 03 f0 00 00 04 00 00 00  ................
    98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff 98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff  .wgA.....wgA....
  backtrace:
    [<00000000e992680d>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x120
    [<000000009e945a98>] mlx5e_tc_int_port_get+0x3f3/0xe20 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000035a537f0>] mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow+0x473/0xcf0 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000070c2cec6>] __mlx5e_add_fdb_flow+0x7cf/0xe90 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000005cc84048>] mlx5e_configure_flower+0xd40/0x4c40 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000004f8a2031>] mlx5e_rep_indr_offload.isra.0+0x10e/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]
    [<000000007df797dc>] mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_tc_cb+0x90/0x130 [mlx5_core]
    [<0000000016c15cc3>] tc_setup_cb_add+0x1cf/0x410
    [<00000000a63305b4>] fl_hw_replace_filter+0x38f/0x670 [cls_flower]
    [<000000008bc9e77c>] fl_change+0x1fd5/0x4430 [cls_flower]
    [<00000000e7f766e4>] tc_new_tfilter+0x867/0x2010
    [<00000000e101c0ef>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fc/0x9f0
    [<00000000e1111d44>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360
    [<0000000082dd6c8b>] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710
    [<00000000fc568f70>] netlink_sendmsg+0x794/0xc50
    [<0000000016e92590>] sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190

So fix this by moving int_port cleanup code to the flow attribute
free helper, which is used by all the attribute free cases.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5da544a3c2047cbfd715acd9cec8380d7fe5c6
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc1918bac0f30e3f551ef5649b53062917db55fa