CVE-2023-53468
EUVD-2025-3280001.10.2025, 12:15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()
kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):
comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
[<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]
[<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
[<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
[<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
[<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):
comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
[<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]
[<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]
[<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
[<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
[<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
[<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the
loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes
that were successfully alloced before are not freed.
Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees
the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.EnginsightAffected Products (NVD)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.27 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.4.235 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.5 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.10.173 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.11 ≤ 𝑥 < 5.15.100 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 5.16 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.1.18 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.2 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.2.5 |
𝑥
= Vulnerable software versions
Debian Releases
Common Weakness Enumeration
References