# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53720"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-22T13:23:52.123Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:50:33.183Z"
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-2023-53720"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53720.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53720"
title: "net/mlx5e: Release the label when replacing existing ct entry"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Release the label when replacing existing ct entry\n\nCited commit doesn't release the label mapping when replacing existing ct\nentry which leads to following memleak report:\n\nunreferenced object 0xffff8881854cf280 (size 96):\n  comm \"kworker/u48:74\", pid 23093, jiffies 4296664564 (age 175.944s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c000000002722d368\u003e] __kmalloc+0x4b/0x1c0\n    [\u003c00000000cc44e18f\u003e] mapping_add+0x6e8/0xc90 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000003ad942a7\u003e] mlx5_get_label_mapping+0x66/0xe0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000266308ac\u003e] mlx5_tc_ct_entry_create_mod_hdr+0x1c4/0xf50 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000009a768b4f\u003e] mlx5_tc_ct_entry_add_rule+0x16f/0xaf0 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000a178f3e5\u003e] mlx5_tc_ct_block_flow_offload_add+0x10cb/0x1f90 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c000000007b46c496\u003e] mlx5_tc_ct_block_flow_offload+0x14a/0x630 [mlx5_core]\n    [\u003c00000000a9a18ac5\u003e] nf_flow_offload_tuple+0x1a3/0x390 [nf_flow_table]\n    [\u003c00000000d0881951\u003e] flow_offload_work_handler+0x257/0xd30 [nf_flow_table]\n    [\u003c000000009e4935a4\u003e] process_one_work+0x7c2/0x13e0\n    [\u003c00000000f5cd36a7\u003e] worker_thread+0x59d/0xec0\n    [\u003c00000000baed1daf\u003e] kthread+0x28f/0x330\n    [\u003c0000000063d282a4\u003e] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30\n\nFix the issue by correctly releasing the label mapping."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"94ceffb48eac7692677d8093dcde6965b70c4b35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3db903a71f1f4bbf30baae166a4a49f2e8aceb61"},{"version":"94ceffb48eac7692677d8093dcde6965b70c4b35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ac04a28144cfa89b61be518268233742c23d88d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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