CVE-2023-52905 octeontx2-pf: Fix resource leakage in VF driver unbind

What is CVE-2023-52905?

CVE-2023-52905 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

octeontx2-pf: Fix resource leakage in VF driver unbind

resources allocated like mcam entries to support the Ntuple feature and hash tables for the tc feature are not getting freed in driver unbind. This patch fixes the issue.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52905?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52905?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-52905 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52905 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-52905, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52905, GHSA-6mp3-h2gc-877w, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-52905, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52905.