# 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-2023-53662"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-07T15:21:21.703Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:49:29.602Z"
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-2023-53662"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53662.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53662"
title: "ext4: fix memory leaks in ext4_fname_{setup_filename,prepare_lookup}"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix memory leaks in ext4_fname_{setup_filename,prepare_lookup}\n\nIf the filename casefolding fails, we'll be leaking memory from the\nfscrypt_name struct, namely from the 'crypto_buf.name' member.\n\nMake sure we free it in the error path on both ext4_fname_setup_filename()\nand ext4_fname_prepare_lookup() functions."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1ae98e295fa2577fb5e492200c58d10230e00e99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"98fc9c2cc45cfcb56961a73de3ec69b474063fc0"},{"version":"1ae98e295fa2577fb5e492200c58d10230e00e99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1fb3f1bbfdb511034b0360dbeb0f6a8424ed2a5c"},{"version":"1ae98e295fa2577fb5e492200c58d10230e00e99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"36daf050be3f6f067631dc52054de2d3b7cc849f"},{"version":"1ae98e295fa2577fb5e492200c58d10230e00e99","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ca4b085f430f3774c3838b3da569ceccd6a0177"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.13"},{"version":"5.15.199","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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