CVE-2023-53838 (GCVE-0-2023-53838)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:29 – Updated: 2025-12-09 01:29
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: synchronize atomic write aborts To fix a race condition between atomic write aborts, I use the inode lock and make COW inode to be re-usable thoroughout the whole atomic file inode lifetime.
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Linux Linux Affected: 3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436 , < 102b82708c1523b36d421cb8687746906069bc17 (git)
Affected: 3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436 , < b7724360714642099cec907f54f42e55f5325453 (git)
Affected: 3db1de0e582c358dd013f3703cd55b5fe4076436 , < a46bebd502fe1a3bd1d22f64cedd93e7e7702693 (git)
Affected: 6db52f1944417c2601182a591a704e2f119c5215 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.18 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.5 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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