CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53091
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay
When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal
replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded
and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new
s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which
may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum
changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the
current journal_inum to the superblock.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.15.104)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.8)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3039d8b8692408438a618fac2776b629852663c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/499fef2030fb754c68b1c7cb3a799a3bc1d0d925 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70e66bdeae4d0f7c8e87762f425b68aedd5e8955 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee0c5277d4fab920bd31345c49e193ecede9ecef Patch