CVE-2023-53318 (GCVE-0-2023-53318)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-16 16:11 – Updated: 2026-05-23 15:28
VLAI
Title
recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: recordmcount: Fix memory leaks in the uwrite function Common realloc mistake: 'file_append' nulled but not freed upon failure
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-14 18:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < bd39f68a309a947670379bf9a39b16c584f86ddb (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < 444ec005404cead222ebce2561a9451c9ee5ad89 (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < 3ed95a6f6c646e8bb15c354536e0ab10e8f39c08 (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < 2d9ca5f62f2ba160ff9c9be4adf401c46c04edef (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < ff70ad9159fbb566b2c15724f44207e8deccd527 (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < 895130e63c93926f07caf5db286b97bd27b81de9 (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < 25c9b185f121812cbc215fdaa1192c6b9025b428 (git)
Affected: a50bd43935586420fb75f4558369eb08566fac5e , < fa359d068574d29e7d2f0fdd0ebe4c6a12b5cfb9 (git)
Affected: fa41a0adbc216e18afe7a2dd4386f614899a0653 (git)
Affected: 334e907923e9cab057020a9c7ec7d9f32ead6573 (git)
Affected: 3.2.76 , < 3.3 (semver)
Affected: 3.4.113 , < 3.5 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.14.316 , ≤ 4.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.284 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.244 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.181 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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