🛡️ CVE-2023-53485 — kernel

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev

Syzkaller reported the following issue:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1965:6

index -84 is out of range for type 's8[341]' (aka 'signed char[341]')

CPU: 1 PID: 4995 Comm: syz-executor146 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6-syzkaller-00037-gb6dad5178cea #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2d0 lib/dump_stack.c:106

ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:217 [inline]

__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x11c/0x150 lib/ubsan.c:348

dbAllocDmapLev+0x3e5/0x430 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1965

dbAllocCtl+0x113/0x920 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1809

dbAllocAG+0x28f/0x10b0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1350

dbAlloc+0x658/0xca0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:874

dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:974 [inline]

dtInsert+0xda7/0x6b00 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863

jfs_create+0x7b6/0xbb0 fs/jfs/namei.c:137

lookup_open fs/namei.c:3492 [inline]

open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3560 [inline]

path_openat+0x13df/0x3170 fs/namei.c:3788

do_filp_open+0x234/0x490 fs/namei.c:3818

do_sys_openat2+0x13f/0x500 fs/open.c:1356

do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]

__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]

__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]

__x64_sys_openat+0x247/0x290 fs/open.c:1383

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7f1f4e33f7e9

Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 14 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48

RSP: 002b:00007ffc21129578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f1f4e33f7e9

RDX: 000000000000275a RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c

RBP: 00007f1f4e2ff080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f1f4e2ff110

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

</TASK>

The bug occurs when the dbAllocDmapLev()function attempts to access

dp->tree.stree[leafidx + LEAFIND] while the leafidx value is negative.

To rectify this, the patch introduces a safeguard within the

dbAllocDmapLev() function. A check has been added to verify if leafidx is

negative. If it is, the function immediately returns an I/O error, preventing

any further execution that could potentially cause harm.

Tested via syzbot.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2023-53485 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.4.7)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 1 October 2025 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2023-53485 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity High
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-10-01
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-06

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.4.7
linux-kernel

References

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