CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53276
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be
stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the
directory entry inode, the memory is not freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a
tmpfile:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32):
comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
ubifs_tmpfile
vfs_tmpfile
path_openat
Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 4.14.315)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.283)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.243)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.180)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.111)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/107d481642c356a5668058066360fc473911e628 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e43d4284bdc3bd34bd770fea13910ac37ab0618 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fb815b38bb31d6af9bd0540b8652a0d6fe6cfd3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29738e1bcc799dd754711d4e4aab967f0c018175 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/823f554747f8aafaa965fb2f3ae794110ed429ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ad8c67a897e68426e85990ebfe0a7d1f71fc79f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8f444a4fadfb5070ed7e298e0a5ceb4a18014f3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce840284929b75dbbf062e0ce7fcb78a63b08b5e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd197308c0e4f738c7ea687d5332035c5753881c Patch