CVE-2023-53278 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Linux

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

Severity

5.5MEDIUMNVD

EPSS

0.0%

top 97.72%

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: ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init() When insmod ubifs.ko, a kmemleak reported as below: unreferenced object 0xffff88817fb1a780 (size 8): comm "insmod", pid 25265, jiffies 4295239702 (age 100.130s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 75 62 69 66 73 00 ff ff ubifs... backtrace: [] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x3c0 [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x183/0x410 [] kstrdup+0x3a/0x80 [] kstrdup_const+0x66/0x80 [] kvasprintf_const+0x155/0x190 …

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_kernel5.17 — 6.1.18+1

▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.20-1+2

▶CVEListV5linux/linux2e3cbf425804fb44a005e252f88f93dff108c911 — 1c5fdf2d4647219d2267ccb08c7f2c7095bf3450+3

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

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

OSV

CVE-2023-53278: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init() When insmod ubifs↗2025-09-16

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GHSA

GHSA-j48m-667v-9r7r: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init() When insmod ubifs↗2025-09-16

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📋Vendor Advisories

Red Hat

kernel: ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init()↗2025-09-16

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Debian

CVE-2023-53278: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Fix ...↗2023

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