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CVE-2023-53468

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()

kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):
    comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
      [<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
      [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
      [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
      [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

  unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):
    comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)
    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
      6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
      6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b  kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
    backtrace:
      [<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
      [<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]
      [<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
      [<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
      [<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
      [<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
      [<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
      [<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the
loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes
that were successfully alloced before are not freed.

Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees
the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.

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HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 1f206002c6bc302bface871ef3f72c0bbcaa931c
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
Version < bf50229494f0443b3f08427d7df63e5a7e2a796a
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
Version < 3e29634eb56e6547272fe4e568f63421f8b3b9fa
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
Version < 26ec45f1c504e15268383019df139d7983f1e67f
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
Version < e11f36d3bc4d23f620754a948fe7b82b63dcb185
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
Version < 4a1ff3c5d04b9079b4f768d9a71b51c4af578dd2
Version 1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.6.27
Status affected
Version < 2.6.27
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.4.*
Version 5.4.235
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.10.*
Version 5.10.173
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.100
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.18
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.2.*
Version 6.2.5
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.3
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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