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CVE-2023-53457 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4c144767736221cad92c132f72b3c6ed06a0ea kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a3f20efe6c901d4c0871cfd1d8c65e2ade71fc1 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5eb6c5ecd8ddb9cfea751cf30f9e23eac97ca3 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e94d0d378d2754b26fc54b429582553f7b53e15 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7225e9e09519deb7e0c42eb6070029cc456e84d kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d17d6bd7cd4f6940b335ea7a6fce5b6d22adc2 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd2db13fb72ff18c633a48229589d42ceb89d1f8 kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-53457
NVD Published Date:
10/01/2025
NVD Last Modified:
10/01/2025
Source:
kernel.org