CVE-2023-53303 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 16
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 (…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux814e7693207f1bd936d600f9b5467f133e3d6e40 — a26ba60413b2c8f95daf0ee0152cf82abd7bfbe4+2
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2GHSA▶
GHSA-7vg2-vv5h-q272: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule()
Inject fa↗2025-09-16
OSV▶
CVE-2023-53303: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: microchip: vcap api: Fix possible memory leak for vcap_dup_rule() Inject faul↗2025-09-16