CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53786
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line
This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference:
dmsetup create flakey --table \
"0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512"
Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12849ed107c0b2869fb775c81208050899006f07 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/337b7af273562b73c46ef77a724604ad139ca762 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8258d84a7917aeece773716518deadb7ad776cb7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83b4e3d878ea6be9aec1d5a1ab177c766c64d1a0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98dba02d9a93eec11bffbb93c7c51624290702d2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e3fffe02e05c05357af91364ac0fc1ed425b5b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb874a190f3f7c3c3fa5b979bee7a3b8cc3a19cc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76fcb9d43ec014ac4a1bb983768696d5b032df9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95cb1526669ccdf7eb12eefd57a893953e3595f git.kernel.org