CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54050
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed
Following process will cause a memleak for copied up znode:
dirty_cow_znode
zn = copy_znode(c, znode);
err = insert_old_idx(c, zbr->lnum, zbr->offs);
if (unlikely(err))
return ERR_PTR(err); // No one refers to zn.
Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
Function copy_znode() is split into 2 parts: resource allocation
and znode replacement, insert_old_idx() is split in similar way,
so resource cleanup could be done in error handling path without
corrupting metadata(mem & disk).
It's okay that old index inserting is put behind of add_idx_dirt(),
old index is used in layout_leb_in_gaps(), so the two processes do
not depend on each other.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ae75f82c33fa1b4ca2006b55c84f4ef4a428d4d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66e9f2fb3e753f820bec2a98e8c6387029988320 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f2eee5457bc48b0426dedfd78cdbdea241a6edb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79079cebbeed624b9d01cfcf1e3254ae1a1f6e14 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6da0ab9847779e05a7416c7a98148b549de69ef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5fda08ef213352ac2df7447611eb4d383cce929 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc29c7216d7f057eb0613b97dc38c7e1962a88d2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef9aac603659e9ffe7d69ae16e3f0fc0991a965b git.kernel.org