CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-54130
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-24
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfs/hfsplus: avoid WARN_ON() for sanity check, use proper error handling
Commit 55d1cbbbb29e ("hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check") fixed
a build warning by turning a comment into a WARN_ON(), but it turns out
that syzbot then complains because it can trigger said warning with a
corrupted hfs image.
The warning actually does warn about a bad situation, but we are much
better off just handling it as the error it is. So rather than warn
about us doing bad things, stop doing the bad things and return -EIO.
While at it, also fix a memory leak that was introduced by an earlier
fix for a similar syzbot warning situation, and add a check for one case
that historically wasn't handled at all (ie neither comment nor
subsequent WARN_ON).
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45917be9f0af339a45b4619f31c902d37b8aed59 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82725be426bce0a425cc5e26fbad61ffd29cff03 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90e019006644dad35862cb4aa270f561b0732066 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be01f35efa876eb81cebab2cb0add068b7280ef4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb7a95af78d29442b8294683eca4897544b8ef46 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc2164ada548addfa8ee215196661c3afe0c5154 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da23752d9660ba7a8ca6c5768fd8776f67f59ee7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f10defb0be6ac42fb6a97b45920d32da6bd6fde8 git.kernel.org