Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53796

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-09 00:00:52
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:51:41
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

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 doesnt 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 didnt consider the security implications of leaking uninitialized memory to disk. This was found by running xfstest generic/435 on a KMSAN-enabled kernel.