CVE-2023-53440 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 95.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix sysfs interface lifetime
The current nilfs2 sysfs support has issues with the timing of creation
and deletion of sysfs entries, potentially leading to null pointer
dereferences, use-after-free, and lockdep warnings.
Some of the sysfs attributes for nilfs2 per-filesystem instance refer to
metadata file "cpfile", "sufile", or "dat", but
nilfs_sysfs_create_device_group that creates those attributes is executed
before…
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 Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxdd70edbde2627f47df118d899de6bbb55abcfdbf — d20dcec8f326deb77b6688f8441e014045dac457+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53440: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix sysfs interface lifetime The current nilfs2 sysfs support has issues w↗2025-09-18
GHSA▶
GHSA-v99g-2hwc-34c3: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix sysfs interface lifetime
The current nilfs2 sysfs support has issues↗2025-09-18