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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53468" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-01T11:42:38.673Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:45:35.279Z" 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-2023-53468" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53468.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53468" title: "ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()\n\nkmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):\n comm \"mount\", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff8176cecd\u003e] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150\n [\u003cffffffffa0406b2b\u003e] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]\n [\u003cffffffff819fa8fd\u003e] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0\n [\u003cffffffff81936f2d\u003e] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230\n [\u003cffffffff819b2bd4\u003e] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0\n [\u003cffffffff819b37aa\u003e] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270\n [\u003cffffffff83c14295\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003cffffffff83e0006a\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):\n comm \"mount\", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk\n 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk\n backtrace:\n [\u003cffffffff8176cecd\u003e] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150\n [\u003cffffffffa0418342\u003e] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]\n [\u003cffffffffa0406ca5\u003e] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]\n [\u003cffffffff819fa8fd\u003e] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0\n [\u003cffffffff81936f2d\u003e] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230\n [\u003cffffffff819b2bd4\u003e] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0\n [\u003cffffffff819b37aa\u003e] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270\n [\u003cffffffff83c14295\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80\n [\u003cffffffff83e0006a\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n\nThe problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the\nloop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf-\u003ebuf and wbuf-\u003einodes\nthat were successfully alloced before are not freed.\n\nFix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees\nthe memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f206002c6bc302bface871ef3f72c0bbcaa931c"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf50229494f0443b3f08427d7df63e5a7e2a796a"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e29634eb56e6547272fe4e568f63421f8b3b9fa"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"26ec45f1c504e15268383019df139d7983f1e67f"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e11f36d3bc4d23f620754a948fe7b82b63dcb185"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4a1ff3c5d04b9079b4f768d9a71b51c4af578dd2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.27","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.27"},{"version":"5.4.235","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.100","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"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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