CVE-2023-54021

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: set goal start correctly in ext4_mb_normalize_request We need to set ac_g_ex to notify the goal start used in ext4_mb_find_by_goal. Set ac_g_ex instead of ac_f_ex in ext4_mb_normalize_request. Besides we should assure goal start is in range [first_data_block, blocks_count) as ext4_mb_initialize_context does. [ Added a check to make sure size is less than ar->pright; otherwise we could end up passing an underflowed value of ar->pright - size to ext4_get_group_no_and_offset(), which will trigger a BUG_ON later on. - TYT ]

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cee78217a7ae72d11c2e21e1a5263b8044489823

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6bee8970075b256fc1b07bf4873049219380818

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc4a3e1d07a86ae5845321d371190244acacb2f2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b07ffe6927c75d99af534d685282ea188d9f71a6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abb330ffaa3a0ae7ce632e28c9260b461c01f19f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ca3005b502ca8ea87d6a344323b179b48c4e4a3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/390eee955d4de4662db5e3e9e9a9eae020432cb7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2479bb6cbdb4d56b807bbe5229e3e26a6f1f4530

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-24

Updated: 2025-12-29

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