Bug 2420296 (CVE-2023-53796) - CVE-2023-53796 kernel: f2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()
Summary: CVE-2023-53796 kernel: f2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53796
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-09 01:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-19 13:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 01:06:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()

When converting an inline directory to a regular one, f2fs is leaking
uninitialized memory to disk because it doesn't initialize the entire
directory block.  Fix this by zero-initializing the block.

This bug was introduced by commit 4ec17d688d74 ("f2fs: avoid unneeded
initializing when converting inline dentry"), which didn't consider the
security implications of leaking uninitialized memory to disk.

This was found by running xfstest generic/435 on a KMSAN-enabled kernel.


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