CVE-2023-53537 — Use After Free in Linux

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-825 — Expired Pointer Dereference5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 96.97%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
LinuxLinux KernelDebian Linux
Timeline
PublishedOct 4

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio xfstest generic/019 reports a bug: kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1619! RIP: 0010:folio_end_writeback+0x8a/0x90 Call Trace: end_page_writeback+0x1c/0x60 f2fs_write_end_io+0x199/0x420 bio_endio+0x104/0x180 submit_bio_noacct+0xa5/0x510 submit_bio+0x48/0x80 f2fs_submit_write_bio+0x35/0x300 f2fs_submit_merged_ipu_write+0x2a0/0x2b0 f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x838/0x8b0 f2fs_write_…

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_kernel5.5 — 5.10.180+4
▶Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 5.10.191-1+3
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0b20fcec8651569935a10afe03fedc0b812d044e — b2f423fda64fb49213aa0ed5056079cf295a5df2+6
▶debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.37-1 (bookworm)

Patches

Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗Patch: git.kernel.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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OSV
CVE-2023-53537: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio xfstest generic/019 reports a↗2025-10-04
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GHSA
GHSA-f8rh-5cg2-mcj8: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio xfstest generic/019 reports↗2025-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
kernel: f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free for cached IPU bio↗2025-10-04
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Debian
CVE-2023-53537: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix t...↗2023
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