CVE-2023-53662

Publication date

2025-10-07 15:21:21

Family

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.