FKIE_CVE-2023-53683

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-07 16:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:45
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode() syzbot is hitting WARN_ON() in hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode(), for crafted filesystem image can contain bogus length. There conditions are not kernel bugs that can justify kernel to panic.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37cab61a52d6f42b2d961c51bcf369f09e235fb5Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a9d68d84b2e41ba3f2a727b36f035fad6800492Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48960a503fcec76d3f72347b7e679dda08ca43bePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61af77acd039ffd221bf7adf0dc95d0a4d377505Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/81b21c0f0138ff5a499eafc3eb0578ad2a99622cPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a75d9211a07fed513c08c5d4861c4a36ac6a74fePatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c074913b12db3632b11588b31bbfb0fa80a0a1c9Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8daee66585897a4c90d937c91e762100237bff9Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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