CVE-2023-54317

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm flakey: don't corrupt the zero page When we need to zero some range on a block device, the function __blkdev_issue_zero_pages submits a write bio with the bio vector pointing to the zero page. If we use dm-flakey with corrupt bio writes option, it will corrupt the content of the zero page which results in crashes of various userspace programs. Glibc assumes that memory returned by mmap is zeroed and it uses it for calloc implementation; if the newly mapped memory is not zeroed, calloc will return non-zeroed memory. Fix this bug by testing if the page is equal to ZERO_PAGE(0) and avoiding the corruption in this case.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff60b2bb680ebcaf8890814dd51084a022891469

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f50714b57aecb6b3dc81d578e295f86d9c73f078

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f2b478228bfdd11e358c5bc197561331f5d5c394

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be360c83f2d810493c04f999d69ec9152981e0c0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7f8892f672222dbfcc721f51edc03963212b249

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/98e311be44dbe31ad9c42aa067b2359bac451fda

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63d31617883d64b43b0e2d529f0751f40713ecae

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c4a56ef7c538d16c1738ba0ccea9e7146105b5a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-30

Updated: 2025-12-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024