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CVE-2023-53995 (GCVE-0-2023-53995)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 10:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:53
VLAI
Title
net: ipv4: fix one memleak in __inet_del_ifa()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ipv4: fix one memleak in __inet_del_ifa() I got the below warning when do fuzzing test: unregister_netdevice: waiting for bond0 to become free. Usage count = 2 It can be repoduced via: ip link add bond0 type bond sysctl -w net.ipv4.conf.bond0.promote_secondaries=1 ip addr add 4.117.174.103/0 scope 0x40 dev bond0 ip addr add 192.168.100.111/255.255.255.254 scope 0 dev bond0 ip addr add 0.0.0.4/0 scope 0x40 secondary dev bond0 ip addr del 4.117.174.103/0 scope 0x40 dev bond0 ip link delete bond0 type bond In this reproduction test case, an incorrect 'last_prim' is found in __inet_del_ifa(), as a result, the secondary address(0.0.0.4/0 scope 0x40) is lost. The memory of the secondary address is leaked and the reference of in_device and net_device is leaked. Fix this problem: Look for 'last_prim' starting at location of the deleted IP and inserting the promoted IP into the location of 'last_prim'.
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < 5624f26a3574500ce23929cb2c9976a0dec9920a (git)
Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < 7c8ddcdab1b900bed69cad6beef477fff116289e (git)
Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < 2f1e86014d0cc084886c36a2d77bc620e2d42618 (git)
Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < 980f8445479814509a3cd55a8eabaae1c9030a4c (git)
Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < 42652af5360d30b43b06057c193739e7dfb18f42 (git)
Affected: 0ff60a45678e67b2547256a636fd00c1667ce4fa , < ac28b1ec6135649b5d78b028e47264cb3ebca5ea (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.257 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.54 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.4 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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