CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53091

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2025-05-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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