CVE-2023-53091

Medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the current journal_inum to the superblock.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedMay 2, 2025
First seenMay 2, 2025

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 5.15.104, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.21, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.2.85.15.104, 6.1.21, 6.2.8

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