CVE-2023-53303

net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule()

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule()

Inject fault When select CONFIG_VCAP_KUNIT_TEST, the below memory leak

occurs. If kzalloc() for duprule succeeds, but the following

kmemdup() fails, the duprule, ckf and caf memory will be leaked. So kfree

them in the error path.

unreferenced object 0xffff122744c50600 (size 192):

comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 346, jiffies 4294896122 (age 911.812s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

10 27 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e 00 00 00 2c 01 00 00 .'..........,...

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 06 c5 44 27 12 ff ff ...........D'...

backtrace:

[<00000000394b0db8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x274/0x2f8

[<0000000001bedc67>] kmalloc_trace+0x38/0x88

[<00000000b0612f98>] vcap_dup_rule+0x50/0x460

[<000000005d2d3aca>] vcap_add_rule+0x8cc/0x1038

[<00000000eef9d0f8>] test_vcap_xn_rule_creator.constprop.0.isra.0+0x238/0x494

[<00000000cbda607b>] vcap_api_rule_remove_in_front_test+0x1ac/0x698

[<00000000c8766299>] kunit_try_run_case+0xe0/0x20c

[<00000000c4fe9186>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x50/0x94

[<00000000f6864acf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374

[<0000000022e639b3>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

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
0.00130 · 2.4th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T08:11Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 08:11Z
    net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule()
    cvelistv5