# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53396"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-18T13:33:37.360Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:28:45.902Z"
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-2023-53396"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53396.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53396"
title: "ubifs: Fix memory leak in do_rename"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: Fix memory leak in do_rename\n\nIf renaming a file in an encrypted directory, function\nfscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for a file name. This name is\nnever used, and before returning to the caller the memory for it is not\nfreed.\n\nWhen running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The\nreport below is triggered by a simple program 'rename' that renames a\nfile in an encrypted directory:\n\n  unreferenced object 0xffff888101502840 (size 32):\n    comm \"rename\", pid 9404, jiffies 4302582475 (age 435.735s)\n    backtrace:\n      __kmem_cache_alloc_node\n      __kmalloc\n      fscrypt_setup_filename\n      do_rename\n      ubifs_rename\n      vfs_rename\n      do_renameat2\n\nTo fix this we can remove the call to fscrypt_setup_filename as it's not\nneeded."
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