CVE-2023-54185Reachable Assertion in Linux

Severity
4.7MEDIUM
No vector
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 30

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space() At add_new_free_space() we have these BUG_ON()'s that are there to deal with any failure to add free space to the in memory free space cache. Such failures are mostly -ENOMEM that should be very rare. However there's no need to have these BUG_ON()'s, we can just return any error to the caller and all callers and their upper call chain are already dealing with errors. So just ma

Affected Packages4 packages

Linuxlinux/linux_kernel2.6.296.1.45+1
Debianlinux/linux_kernel< 6.1.52-1+2
CVEListV5linux/linux0f9dd46cda36b8de3b9f48bc42bd09d20b9c3b5223e72231f8281505883514b23709076e234d4f27+3
debiandebian/linux< linux 6.1.52-1 (bookworm)

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2023-54185: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space() At add_new_free_space() we have t2025-12-30
OSV
btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()2025-12-30
GHSA
GHSA-px78-h2pc-q658: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space() At add_new_free_space() we have2025-12-30

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
kernel: btrfs: remove BUG_ON()'s in add_new_free_space()2025-12-30
Debian
CVE-2023-54185: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remo...2023

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2023-54185 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz