CVE-2023-53861 (GCVE-0-2023-53861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-09 01:30 – Updated: 2025-12-09 01:30
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 100c0ad6c04597fefeaaba2bb1827cc015d95067 , < 245759d987b617d183061db6ab8886ebb5cc78e9 (git)
Affected: 620a3c28221bb219b81bc0bffd065cc187494302 , < 3e24082f16825279054a2b8a5e668d65070bbf07 (git)
Affected: b4319e457d6e3fb33e443efeaf4634fc36e8a9ed , < 772ca4bc1d0d21320ef2ecc0f9e4f90ea85a035d (git)
Affected: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f , < 83a9d5f5ec7e75640b1ba0bbd77a4888df798bb4 (git)
Affected: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f , < e69d665987db0e37896adf78a7e718f9a0a75d3f (git)
Affected: 5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f , < a9ce5993a0f5c0887c8a1b4ffa3b8046fbcfdc93 (git)
Affected: 31668cebf45adfb6283e465e641c4f5a21b07afa (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.4
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.4 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.53 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.16 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.3 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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