Show plain JSON{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.1", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2023-52977", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-03-27T16:40:15.738Z", "datePublished": "2025-03-27T16:43:17.234Z", "dateUpdated": "2025-10-01T17:21:59.721Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2025-05-04T12:49:58.492Z"}, "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: openvswitch: fix flow memory leak in ovs_flow_cmd_new\n\nSyzkaller reports a memory leak of new_flow in ovs_flow_cmd_new() as it is\nnot freed when an allocation of a key fails.\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888116668000 (size 632):\n comm \"syz-executor231\", pid 1090, jiffies 4294844701 (age 18.871s)\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 [<00000000defa3494>] kmem_cache_zalloc include/linux/slab.h:654 [inline]\n [<00000000defa3494>] ovs_flow_alloc+0x19/0x180 net/openvswitch/flow_table.c:77\n [<00000000c67d8873>] ovs_flow_cmd_new+0x1de/0xd40 net/openvswitch/datapath.c:957\n [<0000000010a539a8>] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22d/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739\n [<00000000dff3302d>] genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]\n [<00000000dff3302d>] genl_rcv_msg+0x328/0x590 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800\n [<000000000286dd87>] netlink_rcv_skb+0x153/0x430 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2515\n [<0000000061fed410>] genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811\n [<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline]\n [<000000009dc0f111>] netlink_unicast+0x545/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339\n [<000000004a5ee816>] netlink_sendmsg+0x8e7/0xde0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1934\n [<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]\n [<00000000482b476f>] sock_sendmsg+0x152/0x190 net/socket.c:671\n [<00000000698574ba>] ____sys_sendmsg+0x70a/0x870 net/socket.c:2356\n [<00000000d28d9e11>] ___sys_sendmsg+0xf3/0x170 net/socket.c:2410\n [<0000000083ba9120>] __sys_sendmsg+0xe5/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2439\n [<00000000c00628f8>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46\n [<000000004abfdcf4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6\n\nTo fix this the patch rearranges the goto labels to reflect the order of\nobject allocations and adds appropriate goto statements on the error\npaths.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["net/openvswitch/datapath.c"], "versions": [{"version": 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