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CVE-2023-53832 (GCVE-0-2023-53832)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:52
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Title
md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request init_resync() inits mempool and sets conf->have_replacemnt at the beginning of sync, close_sync() frees the mempool when sync is completed. After [1] recovery might be skipped and init_resync() is called but close_sync() is not. null-ptr-deref occurs with r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio. The following is one way to reproduce the issue. 1) create a array, wait for resync to complete, mddev->recovery_cp is set to MaxSector. 2) recovery is woken and it is skipped. conf->have_replacement is set to 0 in init_resync(). close_sync() not called. 3) some io errors and rdev A is set to WantReplacement. 4) a new device is added and set to A's replacement. 5) recovery is woken, A have replacement, but conf->have_replacemnt is 0. r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio will not be alloced and null-ptr-deref occurs. Fix it by not calling init_resync() if recovery skipped. [1] commit 7e83ccbecd60 ("md/raid10: Allow skipping recovery when clean arrays are assembled")
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < 38d33593260536840b49fd1dcac9aedfd14a9d42 (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < 14964127be77884003976a392c9faa9ebaabbbe1 (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < bdbf104b1c91fbf38f82c522ebf75429f094292a (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < 68695084077e3de9d3e94e09238ace2b6f246446 (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < b50fd1c3d9d0175aa29ff2706ef36cc178bc356a (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < 99b503e4edc5938885d839cf0e7571963f75d800 (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < 9e9efc77efd1956cc244af975240f2513d78a371 (git)
Affected: 7e83ccbecd608b971f340e951c9e84cd0343002f , < a405c6f0229526160aa3f177f65e20c86fce84c5 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.283 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.243 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.180 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.111 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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