Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53091

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-05-02 15:55:36
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:27:59
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the current journal_inum to the superblock.