Bug 2395684 (CVE-2023-53276)
| Summary: | CVE-2023-53276 kernel: Kernel: Denial of Service via ubifs memory leak | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
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| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel, specifically within its ubifs (Unsorted Block Image File System) component. When a temporary file is created on an encrypted directory, the system fails to properly free memory allocated for the filename. A local attacker could exploit this memory leak by repeatedly creating temporary files, which may lead to a denial of service (DoS) due to memory exhaustion, making the system unresponsive.
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the directory entry inode, the memory is not freed. When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a tmpfile: unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32): comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s) backtrace: __kmem_cache_alloc_node __kmalloc fscrypt_setup_filename ubifs_tmpfile vfs_tmpfile path_openat Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.