CVE-2023-54153 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
3.3LOW
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 92.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 24
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas
Yi found during a review of the patch "ext4: don't BUG on inconsistent
journal feature" that when ext4_mark_recovery_complete() returns an error
value, the error handling path does not turn off the enabled quotas,
which triggers the following kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff8cf68678e7c0 (size 64):
comm "mount", pid 746, jiffies 4294871231 (age 11.540s)
hex dump (…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux11215630aada28307ba555a43138db6ac54fa825 — c327b83c59ee938792a0300df646efac39c7d6a7+8
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2023-54153: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas Yi found during a revi↗2025-12-24
GHSA▶
GHSA-969x-jvv9-7j58: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: turn quotas off if mount failed after enabling quotas
Yi found during a re↗2025-12-24