{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54050 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-54050 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-54050 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-54050 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-54050 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54050/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54050/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-54050","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54050/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-54050","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-54050","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54050","GHSA-4h8w-644c-qcrw","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54050"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel UBIFS filesystem can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when index insertion fails.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed\n\nFollowing process will cause a memleak for copied up znode:\n\ndirty_cow_znode\n  zn = copy_znode(c, znode);\n  err = insert_old_idx(c, zbr-\u003elnum, zbr-\u003eoffs);\n  if (unlikely(err))\n     return ERR_PTR(err);   // No one refers to zn.\n\nFetch a reproducer in [Link].\n\nFunction copy_znode() is split into 2 parts: resource allocation\nand znode replacement, insert_old_idx() is split in similar way,\nso resource cleanup could be done in error handling path without\ncorrupting metadata(mem \u0026 disk).\nIt's okay that old index inserting is put behind of add_idx_dirt(),\nold index is used in layout_leb_in_gaps(), so the two processes do\nnot depend on each other.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ubifs: Fix memleak when insert_old_idx() failed","id":"CVE-2023-54050","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"net: do not allow gso_size to be set to GSO_BY_FRAGS","id":"CVE-2023-54051"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"rpmsg: glink: Add check for kstrdup","id":"CVE-2023-54049"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-24","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A memory leak in the Linux kernel UBIFS filesystem can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when index insertion fails.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-54050/"}