fkie_cve-2023-54119
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-12-24 13:16
Modified
2025-12-24 13:16
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ad86d8c12220de97e80d88b5b4c934a40e1812
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d65c97777e5b4a845637800d5d7b648f5772106
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fb33166aed888769ea63d6af49515893f8a1f14
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a48bacee05860c6089c3482bcdc80720b0ee5732
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c915d8f5918bea7c3962b09b8884ca128bfd9b0c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3294998489d39835006240e9c6e6b2ac62022e
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{
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ninotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd\n\nWhen inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it\ncan happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark-\u003ewd got\nalready reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can\nconfuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is\nsensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got\ngenerated otherwise)."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2023-54119",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-24T13:16:13.837",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-24T13:16:13.837",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43"
    },
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    },
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    },
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      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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    },
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    },
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    },
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      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Received"
}


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