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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2023-52979

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 3/27/2025 1:15:45 PM

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

squashfs: harden sanity check in squashfs_read_xattr_id_table

While mounting a corrupted filesystem, a signed integer '*xattr_ids' can
become less than zero.  This leads to the incorrect computation of 'len'
and 'indexes' values which can cause null-ptr-deref in copy_bio_to_actor()
or out-of-bounds accesses in the next sanity checks inside
squashfs_read_xattr_id_table().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29e774dcb27116c06b9c57b1f1f14a1623738989
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72e544b1b28325fe78a4687b980871a7e4101f76
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b30a74f83265c24d1d0842c6c3928cd2e775a3fb
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7398efe24a965cf3937b716c0b1011c201c5d6e
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf5d6612092408157db6bb500c70bf6d67c40fbc
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db76fc535fbdfbf29fd0b93e49627537ad794c8c
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de2785aa3448d1ee7be3ab47fd4a873025f1b3d7