# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53278"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:12.997Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:49.895Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53278"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53278.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53278"
title: "ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init()\n\nWhen insmod ubifs.ko, a kmemleak reported as below:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff88817fb1a780 (size 8):\n   comm \"insmod\", pid 25265, jiffies 4295239702 (age 100.130s)\n   hex dump (first 8 bytes):\n     75 62 69 66 73 00 ff ff                          ubifs...\n   backtrace:\n     [\u003cffffffff81b3fc4c\u003e] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x3c0\n     [\u003cffffffff81b44bf3\u003e] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x183/0x410\n     [\u003cffffffff8198d3da\u003e] kstrdup+0x3a/0x80\n     [\u003cffffffff8198d486\u003e] kstrdup_const+0x66/0x80\n     [\u003cffffffff83989325\u003e] kvasprintf_const+0x155/0x190\n     [\u003cffffffff83bf55bb\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x150\n     [\u003cffffffff83bf576b\u003e] kobject_set_name+0xbb/0xf0\n     [\u003cffffffff8100204c\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x14c/0x5a0\n     [\u003cffffffff8157e380\u003e] do_init_module+0x1f0/0x660\n     [\u003cffffffff815857be\u003e] load_module+0x6d7e/0x7590\n     [\u003cffffffff8158644f\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x19f/0x230\n     [\u003cffffffff815866b3\u003e] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x73/0xb0\n     [\u003cffffffff88c98e85\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n     [\u003cffffffff88e00087\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nWhen kset_register() failed, we should call kset_put to cleanup it."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2e3cbf425804fb44a005e252f88f93dff108c911","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1c5fdf2d4647219d2267ccb08c7f2c7095bf3450"},{"version":"2e3cbf425804fb44a005e252f88f93dff108c911","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d42c2b18c42da7378e67b6414aafe93b65de89d1"},{"version":"2e3cbf425804fb44a005e252f88f93dff108c911","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"203a55f04f66eea1a1ca7e5a302a7f5c99c62327"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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