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🛡️ CVE-2023-54125 — kernel

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

Description

fs/ntfs3: Return error for inconsistent extended attributes

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

fs/ntfs3: Return error for inconsistent extended attributes

ntfs_read_ea is called when we want to read extended attributes. There

are some sanity checks for the validity of the EAs. However, it fails to

return a proper error code for the inconsistent attributes, which might

lead to unpredicted memory accesses after return.

[ 138.916927] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0

[ 138.923876] Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800205cfac by task poc/199

[ 138.931132]

[ 138.933016] CPU: 0 PID: 199 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1+ #4

[ 138.938070] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014

[ 138.947327] Call Trace:

[ 138.949557] <TASK>

[ 138.951539] dump_stack_lvl+0x4d/0x67

[ 138.956834] print_report+0x16f/0x4a6

[ 138.960798] ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0

[ 138.964437] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x7d/0x200

[ 138.969793] ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0

[ 138.973523] kasan_report+0xb8/0x140

[ 138.976740] ? ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0

[ 138.980578] __asan_store4+0x76/0xa0

[ 138.984669] ntfs_set_ea+0x453/0xbf0

[ 138.988115] ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10

[ 138.993390] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0

[ 138.998270] ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50

[ 139.002121] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60

[ 139.005659] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10

[ 139.010177] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100

[ 139.013657] ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80

[ 139.017018] ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440

[ 139.022151] ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10

[ 139.026569] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120

[ 139.030329] ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60

[ 139.033883] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60

[ 139.037338] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40

[ 139.040163] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30

[ 139.043588] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0

[ 139.047255] ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150

[ 139.051264] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120

[ 139.055301] ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0

[ 139.058584] __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170

[ 139.062617] ? __pfx___vfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10

[ 139.066282] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300

[ 139.070061] __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170

[ 139.073580] vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0

[ 139.076641] ? __pfx_vfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10

[ 139.080223] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20

[ 139.084234] do_setxattr+0xce/0x150

[ 139.087768] setxattr+0x126/0x140

[ 139.091250] ? __pfx_setxattr+0x10/0x10

[ 139.094948] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xcb/0x140

[ 139.097838] ? __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x1c7/0x330

[ 139.102688] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30

[ 139.105985] ? kasan_quarantine_put+0x5b/0x190

[ 139.109980] ? putname+0x84/0xa0

[ 139.113886] ? __kasan_slab_free+0x11e/0x1b0

[ 139.117961] ? putname+0x84/0xa0

[ 139.121316] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0

[ 139.124427] ? __mnt_want_write+0xae/0x100

[ 139.127836] ? mnt_want_write+0x8f/0x150

[ 139.130954] path_setxattr+0x164/0x180

[ 139.133998] ? __pfx_path_setxattr+0x10/0x10

[ 139.137853] ? __pfx_ksys_pwrite64+0x10/0x10

[ 139.141299] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30

[ 139.145714] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x6b/0x80

[ 139.150796] __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90

[ 139.155407] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90

[ 139.159035] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc

[ 139.163843] RIP: 0033:0x7f108cae4469

[ 139.166481] Code: 00 f3 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 088

[ 139.183764] RSP: 002b:00007fff87588388 EFLAGS: 00000286 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000bc

[ 139.190657] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f108cae4469

[ 139.196586] RDX: 00007fff875883b0 RSI: 00007fff875883d1 RDI: 00007fff875883b6

[ 139.201716] RBP: 00007fff8758c530 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00007fff8758c618

[ 139.207940] R10: 0000000000000006 R11: 0000000000000286 R12: 00000000004004c0

[ 139.214007] R13: 00007fff8758c610 R14: 0000000000000000 R15

---truncated---

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-2023-54125 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.2.0 up to 6.4.12)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 24 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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-2023-54125 on other distributions

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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 2025-12-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.2.0 6.4.12
unknown

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