Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53732

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-10-22 13:23:59
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:50:47
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix NULL dereference in ni_write_inode Syzbot reports a NULL dereference in ni_write_inode. When creating a new inode, if allocation fails in mi_init function (called in mi_format_new function), mi->mrec is set to NULL. In the error path of this inode creation, mi->mrec is later dereferenced in ni_write_inode. Add a NULL check to prevent NULL dereference.