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Tracker / CVE-2023-53457

CVE-2023-53457

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.12.1 → 4.14.324
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.293
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.255
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.123
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.42
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.192
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.4.7

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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