Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53796

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - f2fs: fix information leak in f2fsmoveinlinedirents When converting an inline directory to a regular one, f2fs is leaking uninitialized memory to disk because i...

CVE-2023-53796

The CVE-2023-53796 issue concerns the Linux kernel f2fs: when converting an inline directory to a regular one, f2fs leaks uninitialized memory to disk because the entire directory block isn’t zero-initialized. This security flaw was introduced by commit 4ec17d688d74 and was uncovered by xfstest g...

CVE-2023-53796 f2fs: fix information leak in f2fs_move_inline_dirents()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix information leak in f2fsmoveinlinedirents When converting an inline directory to a regular one, f2fs is leaking uninitialized memory to disk because it doesn't initialize the entire directory block. Fix this by...