Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53786

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-09 00:00:41
Last updated 2026-05-11 19:51:30
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512" Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.