CVE-2023-53473 — Unchecked Return Value in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 1
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash()
The ext4_dirhash() will *almost* never fail, especially when the hash
tree feature was first introduced. However, with the addition of
support of encrypted, casefolded file names, that function can most
certainly fail today.
So make sure the callers of ext4_dirhash() properly check for
failures, and reflect the errors back up to their callers.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb886ee3e778ec2ad43e276fd378ab492cf6819b7 — b2531936118deb3f479c4fa1bcd787b74b8faa6a+5
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
2OSV▶
CVE-2023-53473: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash() The ext4_dirhash() will *almost*↗2025-10-01
GHSA▶
GHSA-96w3-wxxm-9x2q: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash()
The ext4_dirhash() will *almost↗2025-10-01