vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2023-53091: kernel: ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | May 2, 2025 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 2, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
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.
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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