# 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-2023-53796"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:00:52.919Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:51:41.550Z"
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-2023-53796"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53796.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53796"
title: "f2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()\n\nWhen converting an inline directory to a regular one, f2fs is leaking\nuninitialized memory to disk because it doesn't initialize the entire\ndirectory block.  Fix this by zero-initializing the block.\n\nThis bug was introduced by commit 4ec17d688d74 (\"f2fs: avoid unneeded\ninitializing when converting inline dentry\"), which didn't consider the\nsecurity implications of leaking uninitialized memory to disk.\n\nThis was found by running xfstest generic/435 on a KMSAN-enabled kernel."
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