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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 (first 32 bytes): 10 27 00 00 04 00 00 00 1e 00 00 00 2c 01 00 00 .'..........,... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 18 06 c5 44 27 12 ff ff ...........D'... backtrace: [<00000000394b0db8>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x274/0x2f8 [<0000000001bedc67>] kmalloc_trace+0x38/0x88 [<00000000b0612f98>] vcap_dup_rule+0x50/0x460 [<000000005d2d3aca>] vcap_add_rule+0x8cc/0x1038 [<00000000eef9d0f8>] test_vcap_xn_rule_creator.constprop.0.isra.0+0x238/0x494 [<00000000cbda607b>] vcap_api_rule_remove_in_front_test+0x1ac/0x698 [<00000000c8766299>] kunit_try_run_case+0xe0/0x20c [<00000000c4fe9186>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x50/0x94 [<00000000f6864acf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<0000000022e639b3>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-16 | Published 2025-09-16 | Updated 2025-09-16 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

814e7693207f1bd936d600f9b5467f133e3d6e40 (git) before a26ba60413b2c8f95daf0ee0152cf82abd7bfbe4
affected

814e7693207f1bd936d600f9b5467f133e3d6e40 (git) before 281f65d29d6da1a9b6907fb0b145aaf34f4e4822
affected

Default status
affected

6.3
affected

Any version before 6.3
unaffected

6.5.4 (semver)
unaffected

6.6 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/a26ba60413b2c8f95daf0ee0152cf82abd7bfbe4

git.kernel.org/...c/281f65d29d6da1a9b6907fb0b145aaf34f4e4822

cve.org (CVE-2023-53303)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-53303)

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