Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53662

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-10-07 15:21:21
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:49:29
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix memory leaks in ext4_fname_{setup_filename,prepare_lookup} If the filename casefolding fails, well be leaking memory from the fscrypt_name struct, namely from the crypto_buf.name member. Make sure we free it in the error path on both ext4_fname_setup_filename() and ext4_fname_prepare_lookup() functions.