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CVE-2023-53847 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb-storage: alauda: Fix uninit-value in alauda_check_media() Syzbot got KMSAN to complain about access to an uninitialized value in the alauda subdriver of usb-storage: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in alauda_transport+0x462/0x57f0 drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c:1137 CPU: 0 PID: 12279 Comm: usb-storage Not tainted 5.3.0-rc7+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x191/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:113 kmsan_report+0x13a/0x2b0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_report.c:108 __msan_warning+0x73/0xe0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:250 alauda_check_media+0x344/0x3310 drivers/usb/storage/alauda.c:460 The problem is that alauda_check_media() doesn't verify that its USB transfer succeeded before trying to use the received data. What should happen if the transfer fails isn't entirely clear, but a reasonably conservative approach is to pretend that no media is present. A similar problem exists in a usb_stor_dbg() call in alauda_get_media_status(). In this case, when an error occurs the call is redundant, because usb_stor_ctrl_transfer() already will print a debugging message. Finally, unrelated to the uninitialized memory access, is the fact that alauda_check_media() performs DMA to a buffer on the stack. Fortunately usb-storage provides a general purpose DMA-able buffer for uses like this. We'll use it instead.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/044f4446e06bb03c52216697b14867ebc555ad3b kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d2d5282d39aed6f27dfe1ed60a5f3934ebd21cd kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/153c3e85873cc3e2f387169783c3a227bad9a95a kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/373e0ab8c4c516561493f1acf367c7ee7dc053c2 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49d380bcd6cba987c6085fae6464c9c087e8d9a0 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a11d1e2625bdb2346f6586773b20b20977278ac kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6ff6e7a9dd69364547751db0f626a10a6d628d2 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe7c3a445d22783d27fe8bd0521a8aab1eb9da65 kernel.org

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2023-53847
NVD Published Date:
12/09/2025
NVD Last Modified:
12/09/2025
Source:
kernel.org