CVE-2023-53800

CVE-2023-53800

High · published December 9, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed

There is an use-after-free problem reported by KASAN:

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi]

Read of size 8 at addr ffff888101eec008 by task ubirsvol/4735

CPU: 2 PID: 4735 Comm: ubirsvol

Not tainted 6.1.0-rc1-00003-g84fa3304a7fc-dirty #14

Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),

BIOS 1.14.0-1.fc33 04/01/2014

Call Trace:

<TASK>

dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x44

print_report+0x171/0x472

kasan_report+0xad/0x130

ubi_eba_copy_table+0x11f/0x1c0 [ubi]

ubi_resize_volume+0x4f9/0xbc0 [ubi]

ubi_cdev_ioctl+0x701/0x1850 [ubi]

__x64_sys_ioctl+0x11d/0x170

do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

</TASK>

When ubi_change_vtbl_record() returns an error in ubi_resize_volume(),

"new_eba_tbl" will be freed on error handing path, but it is holded

by "vol->eba_tbl" in ubi_eba_replace_table(). It means that the liftcycle

of "vol->eba_tbl" and "vol" are different, so when resizing volume in

next time, it causing an use-after-free fault.

Fix it by not freeing "new_eba_tbl" after it replaced in

ubi_eba_replace_table(), while will be freed in next volume resizing.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00139 · 3.0th percentile
Published
2025-12-09T06:16Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 DEC 00:00Z
    ubi: Fix use-after-free when volume resizing failed
    cvelistv5