CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53537
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio
xfstest generic/019 reports a bug:
kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619!
RIP: 0010:folio_end_writeback+0x8a/0x90
Call Trace:
end_page_writeback+0x1c/0x60
f2fs_write_end_io+0x199/0x420
bio_endio+0x104/0x180
submit_bio_noacct+0xa5/0x510
submit_bio+0x48/0x80
f2fs_submit_write_bio+0x35/0x300
f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write+0x2a0/0x2b0
f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x838/0x8b0
f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x379/0xa30
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x30c/0x340
do_writepages+0xd8/0x1b0
__writeback_single_inode+0x44/0x370
writeback_sb_inodes+0x233/0x4d0
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0
wb_writeback+0x1dd/0x2d0
wb_workfn+0x367/0x4a0
process_one_work+0x21d/0x430
worker_thread+0x4e/0x3c0
kthread+0x103/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
The root cause is: after cp_error is set, f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write()
in f2fs_write_single_data_page() tries to flush IPU bio in cache, however
f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write() missed to check validity of @bio parameter,
result in submitting random cached bio which belong to other IO context,
then it will cause use-after-free issue, fix it by adding additional
validity check.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.180)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.111)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.28)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.2.15)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.3 < 6.3.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5cdb422c839134273866208dad5360835ddb9794 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d058f0ab161437369ad6e45a4b67c2886e71373 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97ec6f1788cc6bee3f8c89cb908e1a2a1cd859bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a7f63283af6befc0f91d549f4f6917dff7479a9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af4ce124d7bd74cb839bbdaccffbb416771a56b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2f423fda64fb49213aa0ed5056079cf295a5df2 Patch