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Message-ID: <2025120905-CVE-2023-53861-22c6@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 10:31:45 +0900
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53861: ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group
Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel
crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53861 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 5.10.181 with commit 100c0ad6c04597fefeaaba2bb1827cc015d95067 and fixed in 5.10.195 with commit 245759d987b617d183061db6ab8886ebb5cc78e9
Issue introduced in 5.15.113 with commit 620a3c28221bb219b81bc0bffd065cc187494302 and fixed in 5.15.132 with commit 3e24082f16825279054a2b8a5e668d65070bbf07
Issue introduced in 6.1.30 with commit b4319e457d6e3fb33e443efeaf4634fc36e8a9ed and fixed in 6.1.53 with commit 772ca4bc1d0d21320ef2ecc0f9e4f90ea85a035d
Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f and fixed in 6.4.16 with commit 83a9d5f5ec7e75640b1ba0bbd77a4888df798bb4
Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f and fixed in 6.5.3 with commit e69d665987db0e37896adf78a7e718f9a0a75d3f
Issue introduced in 6.4 with commit 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f and fixed in 6.6 with commit a9ce5993a0f5c0887c8a1b4ffa3b8046fbcfdc93
Issue introduced in 6.3.4 with commit 31668cebf45adfb6283e465e641c4f5a21b07afa
Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.
Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions. The official CVE entry at
https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2023-53861
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.
Affected files
==============
The file(s) affected by this issue are:
fs/ext4/mballoc.c
Mitigation
==========
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/245759d987b617d183061db6ab8886ebb5cc78e9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e24082f16825279054a2b8a5e668d65070bbf07
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/772ca4bc1d0d21320ef2ecc0f9e4f90ea85a035d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83a9d5f5ec7e75640b1ba0bbd77a4888df798bb4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e69d665987db0e37896adf78a7e718f9a0a75d3f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9ce5993a0f5c0887c8a1b4ffa3b8046fbcfdc93
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