CVE-2023-52622Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Linux

Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5OSV6.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.81%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 26
Latest updateAug 14

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: avoid online resizing failures due to oversized flex bg When we online resize an ext4 filesystem with a oversized flexbg_size, mkfs.ext4 -F -G 67108864 $dev -b 4096 100M mount $dev $dir resize2fs $dev 16G the following WARN_ON is triggered: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 427 at mm/page_alloc.c:4402 __alloc_pages+0x411/0x550 Modules linked in: sg(E) CPU: 0 PID: 427 Comm: resize2fs Tainted: G E 6.6.0-rc5+ #314 RIP: 0010:__alloc_pa

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.205.4.269+6
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.216-1+3
Ubuntulinux/linux_kernel< 5.4.0-181.201+1
CVEListV5linux/linux28c7bac0091687e6116ebd6c179e154ae4053c90cd1f93ca97a9136989f3bd2bf90696732a2ed644+8
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.82-1 (bookworm)

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

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linux-nvidia-6.5 vulnerabilities2024-06-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

18
CISA ICS
Siemens SINEC OS2025-08-14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities2024-06-26
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities2024-06-18
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities2024-06-14
Ubuntu
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities2024-06-12

💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2023-52622 kernel: ext4: avoid online resizing failures due to oversized flex bg2024-03-26