CVE-2023-53861 (GCVE-0-2023-53861)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-09 01:30
Modified
2025-12-09 01:30
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 100c0ad6c04597fefeaaba2bb1827cc015d95067
Version: 620a3c28221bb219b81bc0bffd065cc187494302
Version: b4319e457d6e3fb33e443efeaf4634fc36e8a9ed
Version: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f
Version: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f
Version: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f
Version: 31668cebf45adfb6283e465e641c4f5a21b07afa
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