CVE-2023-53303

MEDIUM EPSS 2.1%
Published Sep 16, 20259mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Sep 16, 2025 9mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

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

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
2.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-401

Affected Products 2

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.3  –  <6.5.4
linuxlinux_kernel6.6any

References 2

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281f65d29d6da1a9b6907fb0b145aaf34f4e4822
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26ba60413b2c8f95daf0ee0152cf82abd7bfbe4
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/281f65d29d6da1a9b6907fb0b145aaf34f4e4822
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26ba60413b2c8f95daf0ee0152cf82abd7bfbe4
    Patch