DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53278
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278
- Upstream
- Published
- 2025-09-16T08:15:36Z
- Modified
- 2026-09-15T09:02:53Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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 [] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x150 [] kobject_set_name+0xbb/0xf0 [] do_one_initcall+0x14c/0x5a0 [] do_init_module+0x1f0/0x660 [] load_module+0x6d7e/0x7590 [] __do_sys_finit_module+0x19f/0x230 [] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x73/0xb0 [] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd When kset_register() failed, we should call kset_put to cleanup it.
- References
Affected packages
Debian:12 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm
Debian:13 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie
Debian:14 / linux
Package
- Name
- linux
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky