linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53190: vxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path

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Message-ID: <2025091558-CVE-2023-53190-0dfe@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:02:44 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53190: vxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: Fix memory leaks in error path

The memory allocated by vxlan_vnigroup_init() is not freed in the error
path, leading to memory leaks [1]. Fix by calling
vxlan_vnigroup_uninit() in the error path.

The leaks can be reproduced by annotating gro_cells_init() with
ALLOW_ERROR_INJECTION() and then running:

 # echo "100" > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/probability
 # echo "1" > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/times
 # echo "gro_cells_init" > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/inject
 # printf %#x -12 > /sys/kernel/debug/fail_function/gro_cells_init/retval
 # ip link add name vxlan0 type vxlan dstport 4789 external vnifilter
 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory

[1]
unreferenced object 0xffff88810db84a00 (size 512):
  comm "ip", pid 330, jiffies 4295010045 (age 66.016s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    f8 d5 76 0e 81 88 ff ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 02  ..v.............
    03 00 04 00 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 04 00 01 00  ....H...........
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a3097a>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0x60
    [<ffffffff82f049fc>] vxlan_vnigroup_init+0x4c/0x160
    [<ffffffff82ecd69e>] vxlan_init+0x1ae/0x280
    [<ffffffff836858ca>] register_netdevice+0x57a/0x16d0
    [<ffffffff82ef67b7>] __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c7/0xa50
    [<ffffffff82ef6ce6>] vxlan_newlink+0xd6/0x130
    [<ffffffff836d02ab>] __rtnl_newlink+0x112b/0x18a0
    [<ffffffff836d0a8c>] rtnl_newlink+0x6c/0xa0
    [<ffffffff836c0ddf>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43f/0xd40
    [<ffffffff83908ce0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x170/0x440
    [<ffffffff839066af>] netlink_unicast+0x53f/0x810
    [<ffffffff839072d8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x958/0xe70
    [<ffffffff835c319f>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x78f/0xa90
    [<ffffffff835cd6da>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x13a/0x1e0
    [<ffffffff835cd94c>] __sys_sendmsg+0x11c/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff8424da78>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x80
unreferenced object 0xffff88810e76d5f8 (size 192):
  comm "ip", pid 330, jiffies 4295010045 (age 66.016s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 db e1 4f e7 00 00 00 00  ..........O.....
    08 d6 76 0e 81 88 ff ff 08 d6 76 0e 81 88 ff ff  ..v.......v.....
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a3162e>] __kmalloc_node+0x4e/0x90
    [<ffffffff81a0e166>] kvmalloc_node+0xa6/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff8276e1a3>] bucket_table_alloc.isra.0+0x83/0x460
    [<ffffffff8276f18b>] rhashtable_init+0x43b/0x7c0
    [<ffffffff82f04a1c>] vxlan_vnigroup_init+0x6c/0x160
    [<ffffffff82ecd69e>] vxlan_init+0x1ae/0x280
    [<ffffffff836858ca>] register_netdevice+0x57a/0x16d0
    [<ffffffff82ef67b7>] __vxlan_dev_create+0x7c7/0xa50
    [<ffffffff82ef6ce6>] vxlan_newlink+0xd6/0x130
    [<ffffffff836d02ab>] __rtnl_newlink+0x112b/0x18a0
    [<ffffffff836d0a8c>] rtnl_newlink+0x6c/0xa0
    [<ffffffff836c0ddf>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x43f/0xd40
    [<ffffffff83908ce0>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x170/0x440
    [<ffffffff839066af>] netlink_unicast+0x53f/0x810
    [<ffffffff839072d8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x958/0xe70
    [<ffffffff835c319f>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x78f/0xa90

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53190 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 and fixed in 6.0.19 with commit 75c1ab900f7cf0485f0be1607c79c55f51faaa90
	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 and fixed in 6.1.5 with commit 5896f55810680391a32652ca2b91245a05c11e22
	Issue introduced in 5.18 with commit f9c4bb0b245cee35ef66f75bf409c9573d934cf9 and fixed in 6.2 with commit 06bf62944144a92d83dd14fd1378d2a288259561

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53190
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/vxlan/vxlan_core.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75c1ab900f7cf0485f0be1607c79c55f51faaa90
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5896f55810680391a32652ca2b91245a05c11e22
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06bf62944144a92d83dd14fd1378d2a288259561