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🛡️ CVE-2023-53999 on Ubuntu — linux-allwinner-5.19

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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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-53999 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package linux-allwinner-5.19. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53999 is recorded against 85 packages.

  • linux-allwinner-5.19
  • linux-aws-5.0
  • linux-aws-5.11
  • linux-aws-5.13
  • linux-aws-5.19
  • linux-aws-5.3
  • linux-aws-5.8
  • linux-aws-6.2
  • linux-aws-6.5
  • linux-azure
  • linux-azure-5.11
  • linux-azure-5.13
  • linux-azure-5.19
  • linux-azure-5.3
  • linux-azure-5.8
  • linux-azure-6.11
  • linux-azure-6.2
  • linux-azure-6.5
  • linux-azure-edge
  • linux-azure-fde
  • linux-azure-fde-5.19
  • linux-azure-fde-6.2
  • linux-gcp
  • linux-gcp-5.11
Show the remaining 61 packages
  • linux-gcp-5.13
  • linux-gcp-5.19
  • linux-gcp-5.3
  • linux-gcp-5.8
  • linux-gcp-6.11
  • linux-gcp-6.2
  • linux-gcp-6.5
  • linux-gke
  • linux-gke-4.15
  • linux-gke-5.15
  • linux-gke-5.4
  • linux-gkeop
  • linux-gkeop-5.15
  • linux-gkeop-5.4
  • linux-hwe
  • linux-hwe-5.11
  • linux-hwe-5.13
  • linux-hwe-5.19
  • linux-hwe-5.8
  • linux-hwe-6.11
  • linux-hwe-6.2
  • linux-hwe-6.5
  • linux-hwe-edge
  • linux-intel-5.13
  • linux-intel-iot-realtime
  • linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19
  • linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11
  • linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2
  • linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5
  • linux-nvidia-6.11
  • linux-nvidia-6.2
  • linux-nvidia-6.5
  • linux-oem
  • linux-oem-5.10
  • linux-oem-5.13
  • linux-oem-5.14
  • linux-oem-5.17
  • linux-oem-5.6
  • linux-oem-6.0
  • linux-oem-6.1
  • linux-oem-6.11
  • linux-oem-6.5
  • linux-oem-6.8
  • linux-oracle-5.0
  • linux-oracle-5.11
  • linux-oracle-5.13
  • linux-oracle-5.3
  • linux-oracle-5.8
  • linux-oracle-6.5
  • linux-raspi-realtime
  • linux-raspi2
  • linux-realtime
  • linux-riscv
  • linux-riscv-5.11
  • linux-riscv-5.19
  • linux-riscv-5.8
  • linux-riscv-6.14
  • linux-riscv-6.5
  • linux-starfive-5.19
  • linux-starfive-6.2
  • linux-starfive-6.5

Timeline and source

Published on 24 December 2025 and last revised on 27 January 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
git.kernel.org (Report)
git.kernel.org (Report)

Other advisories for this package

linux-allwinner-5.19 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

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-12-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-01-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
linux-allwinner-5.19 — —
linux-aws-5.0 — —
linux-aws-5.11 — —
linux-aws-5.13 — —
linux-aws-5.19 — —
linux-aws-5.3 — —
linux-aws-5.8 — —
linux-aws-6.2 — —
linux-aws-6.5 — —
linux-azure — —
linux-azure-5.11 — —
linux-azure-5.13 — —
linux-azure-5.19 — —
linux-azure-5.3 — —
linux-azure-5.8 — —
linux-azure-6.11 — —
linux-azure-6.2 — —
linux-azure-6.5 — —
linux-azure-edge — —
linux-azure-fde — —
linux-azure-fde-5.19 — —
linux-azure-fde-6.2 — —
linux-gcp — —
linux-gcp-5.11 — —
linux-gcp-5.13 — —
linux-gcp-5.19 — —
linux-gcp-5.3 — —
linux-gcp-5.8 — —
linux-gcp-6.11 — —
linux-gcp-6.2 — —
linux-gcp-6.5 — —
linux-gke — —
linux-gke-4.15 — —
linux-gke-5.15 — —
linux-gke-5.4 — —
linux-gkeop — —
linux-gkeop-5.15 — —
linux-gkeop-5.4 — —
linux-hwe — —
linux-hwe-5.11 — —
linux-hwe-5.13 — —
linux-hwe-5.19 — —
linux-hwe-5.8 — —
linux-hwe-6.11 — —
linux-hwe-6.2 — —
linux-hwe-6.5 — —
linux-hwe-edge — —
linux-intel-5.13 — —
linux-intel-iot-realtime — —
linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 — —
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 — —
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 — —
linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 — —
linux-nvidia-6.11 — —
linux-nvidia-6.2 — —
linux-nvidia-6.5 — —
linux-oem — —
linux-oem-5.10 — —
linux-oem-5.13 — —
linux-oem-5.14 — —
linux-oem-5.17 — —
linux-oem-5.6 — —
linux-oem-6.0 — —
linux-oem-6.1 — —
linux-oem-6.11 — —
linux-oem-6.5 — —
linux-oem-6.8 — —
linux-oracle-5.0 — —
linux-oracle-5.11 — —
linux-oracle-5.13 — —
linux-oracle-5.3 — —
linux-oracle-5.8 — —
linux-oracle-6.5 — —
linux-raspi-realtime — —
linux-raspi2 — —
linux-realtime — —
linux-riscv — —
linux-riscv-5.11 — —
linux-riscv-5.19 — —
linux-riscv-5.8 — —
linux-riscv-6.14 — —
linux-riscv-6.5 — —
linux-starfive-5.19 — —
linux-starfive-6.2 — —
linux-starfive-6.5 — —

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