CVE-2023-53786
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/12/2025
Last modified:
09/12/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line<br />
<br />
This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference:<br />
dmsetup create flakey --table \<br />
"0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512"<br />
<br />
Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/12849ed107c0b2869fb775c81208050899006f07
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/337b7af273562b73c46ef77a724604ad139ca762
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8258d84a7917aeece773716518deadb7ad776cb7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83b4e3d878ea6be9aec1d5a1ab177c766c64d1a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98dba02d9a93eec11bffbb93c7c51624290702d2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1e3fffe02e05c05357af91364ac0fc1ed425b5b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb874a190f3f7c3c3fa5b979bee7a3b8cc3a19cc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f76fcb9d43ec014ac4a1bb983768696d5b032df9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f95cb1526669ccdf7eb12eefd57a893953e3595f