CVE-2023-53457

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd2db13fb72ff18c633a48229589d42ceb89d1f8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d17d6bd7cd4f6940b335ea7a6fce5b6d22adc2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7225e9e09519deb7e0c42eb6070029cc456e84d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e94d0d378d2754b26fc54b429582553f7b53e15

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5eb6c5ecd8ddb9cfea751cf30f9e23eac97ca3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a3f20efe6c901d4c0871cfd1d8c65e2ade71fc1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4c144767736221cad92c132f72b3c6ed06a0ea

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2025-10-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024