CVE-2023-54077

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54077
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54077.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-54077
Downstream
Published
2025-12-24T13:03:25Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:25Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak if ntfs_read_mft failed
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak if ntfs_read_mft failed

Label ATTR_ROOT in ntfs_read_mft() sets is_root = true and ni->ni_flags |= NI_FLAG_DIR, then next attr will goto label ATTR_ALLOC and alloc ni->dir.alloc_run. However two states are not always consistent and can make memory leak.

  1. attr_name in ATTR_ROOT does not fit the condition it will set is_root = true but NI_FLAG_DIR is not set.
  2. next attr_name in ATTR_ALLOC fits the condition and alloc ni->dir.alloc_run
  3. in cleanup function ni_clear(), when NI_FLAG_DIR is set, it frees ni->dir.alloc_run, otherwise it frees ni->file.run
  4. because NI_FLAG_DIR is not set in this case, ni->dir.alloc_run is leaked as kmemleak reported:

unreferenced object 0xffff888003bc5480 (size 64): backtrace: [<000000003d42e6b0>] __kmalloc_node+0x4e/0x1c0 [<00000000d8e19b8a>] kvmalloc_node+0x39/0x1f0 [<00000000fc3eb5b8>] run_add_entry+0x18a/0xa40 [ntfs3] [<0000000011c9f978>] run_unpack+0x75d/0x8e0 [ntfs3] [<00000000e7cf1819>] run_unpack_ex+0xbc/0x500 [ntfs3] [<00000000bbf0a43d>] ntfs_iget5+0xb25/0x2dd0 [ntfs3] [<00000000a6e50693>] ntfs_fill_super+0x218d/0x3580 [ntfs3] [<00000000b9170608>] get_tree_bdev+0x3fb/0x710 [<000000004833798a>] vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x280 [<000000006e20b8e6>] path_mount+0xf3c/0x1930 [<000000007bf15a5f>] do_mount+0xf3/0x110 ...

Fix this by always setting is_root and NI_FLAG_DIR together.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/54xxx/CVE-2023-54077.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17
Fixed
3030f2b9b3329db3948c1a145a5493ca6f617d50
Fixed
1bc6bb657dfb0ab3b94ef6d477ca241bf7b6ec06
Fixed
93bf79f989688852deade1550fb478b0a4d8daa8
Fixed
3bb0d3eb475f01744ce6d6e998dfbd80220852a1
Fixed
bfa434c60157c9793e9b12c9b68ade02aff9f803

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54077.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.15.0
Fixed
5.15.111
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.28
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.2.15
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.3.0
Fixed
6.3.2

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-54077.json"