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CVE-2023-53420

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CVE-2023-53420

Published: Sep 18, 2025

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ntfs: Fix panic about slab-out-of-bounds caused by ntfs_listxattr() Here is a BUG report from syzbot: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_list_ea fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:191 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ntfs_listxattr+0x401/0x570 fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:710 Read of size 1 at addr ffff888021acaf3d by task syz-executor128/3632 Call Trace: ntfs_list_ea fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:191 [inline] ntfs_listxattr+0x401/0x570 fs/ntfs3/xattr.c:710 vfs_listxattr fs/xattr.c:457 [inline] listxattr+0x293/0x2d0 fs/xattr.c:804 Fix the logic of ea_all iteration. When the ea->name_len is 0, return immediately, or Add2Ptr() would visit invalid memory in the next loop. [[email protected]: lines of the patch have changed]

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - < f3380d895e28a32632eb3609f5bd515adee4e5a1
affected
be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - < c86a2517df6c9304db8fb12b77136ec7a5d85994
affected
be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - < 721b75ea2dfce53a8890dff92ae01afca8e74f88
affected
be71b5cba2e6485e8959da7a9f9a44461a1bb074 - < 3c675ddffb17a8b1e32efad5c983254af18b12c2

Linux

Linux

affected
5.15
unaffected
0 - < 5.15
unaffected
5.15.121 - <= 5.15.*
unaffected
6.1.39 - <= 6.1.*
unaffected
6.4.4 - <= 6.4.*

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