CVE-2023-52977

net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new

Medium · published March 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new

Syzkaller reports a memory leak of new_flow in ovs_flow_cmd_new() as it is

not freed when an allocation of a key fails.

BUG: memory leak

unreferenced object 0xffff888116668000 (size 632):

comm "syz-executor231", pid 1090, jiffies 4294844701 (age 18.871s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace:

[<00000000defa3494>] kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:654 [inline]

[<00000000defa3494>] ovs_flow_alloc+0x19/0x180 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c:77

[<00000000c67d8873>] ovs_flow_cmd_new+0x1de/0xd40 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:957

[<0000000010a539a8>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22d/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739

[<00000000dff3302d>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]

[<00000000dff3302d>] genl_rcv_msg+0x328/0x590 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800

[<000000000286dd87>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2515

[<0000000061fed410>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811

[<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline]

[<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast+0x545/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339

[<000000004a5ee816>] netlink_sendmsg+0x8e7/0xde0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1934

[<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]

[<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg+0x152/0x190 net/socket.c:671

[<00000000698574ba>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x70a/0x870 net/socket.c:2356

[<00000000d28d9e11>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2410

[<0000000083ba9120>] __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2439

[<00000000c00628f8>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46

[<000000004abfdcf4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6

To fix this the patch rearranges the goto labels to reflect the order of

object allocations and adds appropriate goto statements on the error

paths.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00266 · 17.5th percentile
Published
2025-03-27T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 16:43Z
    net: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new
    cvelistv5