CVE-2023-53473Unchecked Return Value in Linux

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel5.25.15.112+4
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.37-1+2
CVEListV5linux/linuxb886ee3e778ec2ad43e276fd378ab492cf6819b7b2531936118deb3f479c4fa1bcd787b74b8faa6a+5
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
OSV
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 *almost2025-10-01

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash()2025-10-01
Debian
CVE-2023-53473: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: impro...2023