CVE-2023-53271

ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume()

Medium · published September 16, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume()

There is a memory leaks problem reported by kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff888102007a00 (size 128):

comm "ubirsvol", pid 32090, jiffies 4298464136 (age 2361.231s)

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................

ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................

backtrace:

[<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150

[<ffffffffa02a9a36>] ubi_eba_create_table+0x76/0x170 [ubi]

[<ffffffffa029764e>] ubi_resize_volume+0x1be/0xbc0 [ubi]

[<ffffffffa02a3321>] ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi]

[<ffffffff81975d2d>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x11d/0x170

[<ffffffff83c142a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

[<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

This is due to a mismatch between create and destroy interfaces, and

in detail that "new_eba_tbl" created by ubi_eba_create_table() but

destroyed by kfree(), while will causing "new_eba_tbl->entries" not

freed.

Fix it by replacing kfree(new_eba_tbl) with

ubi_eba_destroy_table(new_eba_tbl)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-09-16T08:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 SEP 08:07Z
    ubi: Fix unreferenced object reported by kmemleak in ubi_resize_volume()
    cvelistv5