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CVE-2023-54313 (GCVE-0-2023-54313)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:23 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:59
VLAI
Title
ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu() Following process: P1 P2 path_openat link_path_walk may_lookup inode_permission(rcu) ovl_permission acl_permission_check check_acl get_cached_acl_rcu ovl_get_inode_acl realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_inode) drop_cache __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry) iput(ovl_inode) ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode) dput(oi->__upperdentry) dentry_kill(upperdentry) dentry_unlink_inode upperdentry->d_inode = NULL ovl_inode_upper upperdentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode) d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer dereference , will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode: [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028 [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted 6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216 [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300 [ 205.489584] Call Trace: [ 205.489812] <TASK> [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30 [ 205.490466] get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0 [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0 [ 205.491447] ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0 [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0 [ 205.492425] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550 [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200 [ 205.493803] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240 [ 205.495747] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0 Fetch a reproducer in [Link]. Use the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do non-nullptr checking.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525 , < d97481c7b2739a704848bb3c01f224dc71bdf78e (git)
Affected: 332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525 , < c4a5fb1ae5d3f02d3227afde2b9339994389463d (git)
Affected: 332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525 , < d536af163c53ce9f9bcfe87d2e9946f06f1a7ea4 (git)
Affected: 332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525 , < f4e19e595cc2e76a8a58413eb19d3d9c51328b53 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.40 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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