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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53190" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:06:19.139Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:59.480Z" 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-2023-53190" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53190.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53190" title: "vxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path\n\nThe memory allocated by vxlan_vnigroup_init() is not freed in the error\npath, leading to memory leaks [1]. Fix by calling\nvxlan_vnigroup_uninit() in the error path.\n\nThe leaks can be reproduced by annotating gro_cells_init() with\nALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() and then running:\n\n # echo \"100\" \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/probability\n # echo \"1\" \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/times\n # echo \"gro_cells_init\" \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/inject\n # printf %#x -12 \u003e /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/gro_cells_init/retval\n # ip link add name vxlan0 type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter\n RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory\n\n[1]\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810db84a00 (size 512):\n comm \"ip\", pid 330, jiffies 4295010045 (age 66.016s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n f8 d5 76 0e 81 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 ..v.............\n 03 00 04 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 04 00 01 00 ....H...........\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff81a3097a\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0x60\n [\u003cffffffff82f049fc\u003e] vxlan_vnigroup_init+0x4c/0x160\n [\u003cffffffff82ecd69e\u003e] vxlan_init+0x1ae/0x280\n [\u003cffffffff836858ca\u003e] register_netdevice+0x57a/0x16d0\n [\u003cffffffff82ef67b7\u003e] __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c7/0xa50\n [\u003cffffffff82ef6ce6\u003e] vxlan_newlink+0xd6/0x130\n [\u003cffffffff836d02ab\u003e] __rtnl_newlink+0x112b/0x18a0\n [\u003cffffffff836d0a8c\u003e] rtnl_newlink+0x6c/0xa0\n [\u003cffffffff836c0ddf\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43f/0xd40\n [\u003cffffffff83908ce0\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x170/0x440\n [\u003cffffffff839066af\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x53f/0x810\n [\u003cffffffff839072d8\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x958/0xe70\n [\u003cffffffff835c319f\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0x78f/0xa90\n [\u003cffffffff835cd6da\u003e] ___sys_sendmsg+0x13a/0x1e0\n [\u003cffffffff835cd94c\u003e] __sys_sendmsg+0x11c/0x1f0\n [\u003cffffffff8424da78\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80\nunreferenced object 0xffff88810e76d5f8 (size 192):\n comm \"ip\", pid 330, jiffies 4295010045 (age 66.016s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 db e1 4f e7 00 00 00 00 ..........O.....\n 08 d6 76 0e 81 88 ff ff 08 d6 76 0e 81 88 ff ff ..v.......v.....\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff81a3162e\u003e] __kmalloc_node+0x4e/0x90\n [\u003cffffffff81a0e166\u003e] kvmalloc_node+0xa6/0x1f0\n [\u003cffffffff8276e1a3\u003e] bucket_table_alloc.isra.0+0x83/0x460\n [\u003cffffffff8276f18b\u003e] rhashtable_init+0x43b/0x7c0\n [\u003cffffffff82f04a1c\u003e] vxlan_vnigroup_init+0x6c/0x160\n [\u003cffffffff82ecd69e\u003e] vxlan_init+0x1ae/0x280\n [\u003cffffffff836858ca\u003e] register_netdevice+0x57a/0x16d0\n [\u003cffffffff82ef67b7\u003e] __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c7/0xa50\n [\u003cffffffff82ef6ce6\u003e] vxlan_newlink+0xd6/0x130\n [\u003cffffffff836d02ab\u003e] __rtnl_newlink+0x112b/0x18a0\n [\u003cffffffff836d0a8c\u003e] rtnl_newlink+0x6c/0xa0\n [\u003cffffffff836c0ddf\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43f/0xd40\n [\u003cffffffff83908ce0\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x170/0x440\n [\u003cffffffff839066af\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x53f/0x810\n [\u003cffffffff839072d8\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x958/0xe70\n [\u003cffffffff835c319f\u003e] ____sys_sendmsg+0x78f/0xa90" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75c1ab900f7cf0485f0be1607c79c55f51faaa90"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5896f55810680391a32652ca2b91245a05c11e22"},{"version":"f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"06bf62944144a92d83dd14fd1378d2a288259561"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.0.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.0.*"},{"version":"6.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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