CVE-2023-54119

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inotify: Avoid reporting event with invalid wd When inotify_freeing_mark() races with inotify_handle_inode_event() it can happen that inotify_handle_inode_event() sees that i_mark->wd got already reset to -1 and reports this value to userspace which can confuse the inotify listener. Avoid the problem by validating that wd is sensible (and pretend the mark got removed before the event got generated otherwise).

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb3294998489d39835006240e9c6e6b2ac62022e

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c915d8f5918bea7c3962b09b8884ca128bfd9b0c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a48bacee05860c6089c3482bcdc80720b0ee5732

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fb33166aed888769ea63d6af49515893f8a1f14

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d65c97777e5b4a845637800d5d7b648f5772106

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17ad86d8c12220de97e80d88b5b4c934a40e1812

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/145f54ea336b06cf4f92eeee996f2ffca939ea43

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