CVE-2023-53396 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-53396

ubifs: Fix memory leak in do_rename

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Fix memory leak in do_rename If renaming a file in an encrypted directory, function fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for a file name. This name is never used, and before returning to the caller the memory for it is not freed. When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The report below is triggered by a simple program 'rename' that renames a file in an encrypted directory: unreferenced object 0xffff888101502840 (size 32): comm "rename", pid 9404, jiffies 4302582475 (age 435.735s) backtrace: __kmem_cache_alloc_node __kmalloc fscrypt_setup_filename do_rename ubifs_rename vfs_rename do_renameat2 To fix this we can remove the call to fscrypt_setup_filename as it's not needed.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
c67bc98d1f0853bb196e9c48eab38b6f2ddab795, 278d9a243635f26c05ad95dcf9c5a593b9e04dc6, 17495eb2f7f08113b50aba298c2c1a045824c4f7, 868de33a39e0e1e91ed3ce4a23a65f30144d2443, 5.15.33, 5.16.19, 5.17.2, 5.18, 0, 5.15.112, 6.1.28, 6.2.15, 6.3.2, 6.4

Timeline

Official Publish: September 18th, 2025
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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