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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53999" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:35.523Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-03T10:55:04.323Z" 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-2023-53999" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53999.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53999" title: "net/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: TC, Fix internal port memory leak\n\nThe flow rule can be splited, and the extra post_act rules are added\nto post_act table. It's possible to trigger memleak when the rule\nforwards packets from internal port and over tunnel, in the case that,\nfor example, CT 'new' state offload is allowed. As int_port object is\nassigned to the flow attribute of post_act rule, and its refcnt is\nincremented by mlx5e_tc_int_port_get(), but mlx5e_tc_int_port_put() is\nnot called, the refcnt is never decremented, then int_port is never\nfreed.\n\nThe kmemleak reports the following error:\nunreferenced object 0xffff888128204b80 (size 64):\n comm \"handler20\", pid 50121, jiffies 4296973009 (age 642.932s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 01 00 00 00 19 00 00 00 03 f0 00 00 04 00 00 00 ................\n 98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff 98 77 67 41 81 88 ff ff .wgA.....wgA....\n backtrace:\n [\u003c00000000e992680d\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0x120\n [\u003c000000009e945a98\u003e] mlx5e_tc_int_port_get+0x3f3/0xe20 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c0000000035a537f0\u003e] mlx5e_tc_add_fdb_flow+0x473/0xcf0 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c0000000070c2cec6\u003e] __mlx5e_add_fdb_flow+0x7cf/0xe90 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c000000005cc84048\u003e] mlx5e_configure_flower+0xd40/0x4c40 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c000000004f8a2031\u003e] mlx5e_rep_indr_offload.isra.0+0x10e/0x1c0 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c000000007df797dc\u003e] mlx5e_rep_indr_setup_tc_cb+0x90/0x130 [mlx5_core]\n [\u003c0000000016c15cc3\u003e] tc_setup_cb_add+0x1cf/0x410\n [\u003c00000000a63305b4\u003e] fl_hw_replace_filter+0x38f/0x670 [cls_flower]\n [\u003c000000008bc9e77c\u003e] fl_change+0x1fd5/0x4430 [cls_flower]\n [\u003c00000000e7f766e4\u003e] tc_new_tfilter+0x867/0x2010\n [\u003c00000000e101c0ef\u003e] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x6fc/0x9f0\n [\u003c00000000e1111d44\u003e] netlink_rcv_skb+0x12c/0x360\n [\u003c0000000082dd6c8b\u003e] netlink_unicast+0x438/0x710\n [\u003c00000000fc568f70\u003e] netlink_sendmsg+0x794/0xc50\n [\u003c0000000016e92590\u003e] sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190\n\nSo fix this by moving int_port cleanup code to the flow attribute\nfree helper, which is used by all the attribute free cases." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9079ef5fb26ff38ced50cc15199ce56a009b8605"},{"version":"8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc1918bac0f30e3f551ef5649b53062917db55fa"},{"version":"8300f225268be9ee2c0daf5a3f23929fcdcbf213","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ac5da544a3c2047cbfd715acd9cec8380d7fe5c6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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