CVE-2023-53506Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions in Linux

Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.09%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedOct 1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents When merging very long extents we try to push as much length as possible to the first extent. However this is unnecessarily complicated and not really worth the trouble. Furthermore there was a bug in the logic resulting in corrupting extents in the file as syzbot reproducer shows. So just don't bother with the merging of extents that are too long together.

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_kernel2.6.12.14.14.308+7
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.178-1+3
CVEListV5linux/linux1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2d52252a1de4cf96a34f722b0cd8902d8ff78eb57+8
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.20-1 (bookworm)

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-wxmx-9x37-q992: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents When merging very long extents we t2025-10-01
OSV
CVE-2023-53506: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents When merging very long extents we try2025-10-01

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents2025-10-01
Debian
CVE-2023-53506: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Do not...2023