CVE-2023-53271 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime5 documents5 sources

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.0%

top 95.77%

CISA KEV

Not in KEV

Exploit

No known exploits

Affected products

Linux Linux Kernel Debian Linux

Timeline

PublishedSep 16

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() There is a memory leaks problem reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff888102007a00 (size 128): comm "ubirsvol", pid 32090, jiffies 4298464136 (age 2361.231s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.9 — 4.14.308+6

▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3

▶CVEListV5linux/linux799dca34ac543485f581bd8464ec9b1c4f0f852a — 09780a44093b53f9cbca76246af2e4ff0884e512+8

▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

GHSA

GHSA-8895-6f7g-6q4j: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() There i↗2025-09-16

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OSV

CVE-2023-53271: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume() There is↗2025-09-16

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📋Vendor Advisories

Red Hat

kernel: ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume()↗2025-09-16

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Debian

CVE-2023-53271: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubi: Fix un...↗2023

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