# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52581"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:59:47.856Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:26:26.550Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52581"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52581.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52581"
title: "netfilter: nf_tables: fix memleak when more than 255 elements expired"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: nf_tables: fix memleak when more than 255 elements expired\n\nWhen more than 255 elements expired we're supposed to switch to a new gc\ncontainer structure.\n\nThis never happens: u8 type will wrap before reaching the boundary\nand nft_trans_gc_space() always returns true.\n\nThis means we recycle the initial gc container structure and\nlose track of the elements that came before.\n\nWhile at it, don't deref 'gc' after we've passed it to call_rcu."
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