{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  ubifs: Fix memory leak in ubifs_sysfs_init()  When insmod ubifs.ko, a kmemleak reported as below:   unreferenced object 0xffff88817fb1a780 (size 8):    comm \"insmod\", pid 25265, jiffies 4295239702 (age 100.130s)    hex dump (first 8 bytes):      75 62 69 66 73 00 ff ff                          ubifs...    backtrace:      [\u003cffffffff81b3fc4c\u003e] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x9c/0x3c0      [\u003cffffffff81b44bf3\u003e] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x183/0x410      [\u003cffffffff8198d3da\u003e] kstrdup+0x3a/0x80      [\u003cffffffff8198d486\u003e] kstrdup_const+0x66/0x80      [\u003cffffffff83989325\u003e] kvasprintf_const+0x155/0x190      [\u003cffffffff83bf55bb\u003e] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x5b/0x150      [\u003cffffffff83bf576b\u003e] kobject_set_name+0xbb/0xf0      [\u003cffffffff8100204c\u003e] do_one_initcall+0x14c/0x5a0      [\u003cffffffff8157e380\u003e] do_init_module+0x1f0/0x660      [\u003cffffffff815857be\u003e] load_module+0x6d7e/0x7590      [\u003cffffffff8158644f\u003e] __do_sys_finit_module+0x19f/0x230      [\u003cffffffff815866b3\u003e] __x64_sys_finit_module+0x73/0xb0      [\u003cffffffff88c98e85\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80      [\u003cffffffff88e00087\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd  When kset_register() failed, we should call kset_put to cleanup it.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:02:53.841854041Z","published":"2025-09-16T08:15:36.697Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-53278"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53278"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.20-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.20-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.20-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53278.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}