CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-53420

7.1 HIGH Published 2025-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2025-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: Fix panic about slab-out-of-bounds caused by ntfs_listxattr() Here is a BUG report from syzbot: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_list_ea fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:191 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_listxattr+0x401/0x570 fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:710 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888021acaf3d by task syz-executor128/3632 Call Trace: ntfs_list_ea fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:191 [inline] ntfs_listxattr+0x401/0x570 fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:710 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:457 [inline] listxattr+0x293/0x2d0 fs/xattr.c:804 Fix the logic of ea_all iteration. When the ea->name_len is 0, return immediately, or Add2Ptr() would visit invalid memory in the next loop. [[email protected]: lines of the patch have changed]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.39) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References