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🛡️ CVE-2023-53999 — kernel

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
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Description

net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak

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.

Affected software

CVE-2023-53999 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.18.0 up to 6.4.11)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

CVE-2023-53999 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.18.0 6.4.11
unknown — —

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