CVE-2023-53692
CVE-2023-53692CVE-2023-53692
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline
Syzbot found the following issue:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048
EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.
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BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx fs/ext4/extents.c:768 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_find_extent+0x76e/0xd90 fs/ext4/extents.c:931
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888073644750 by task syz-executor420/5067
CPU: 0 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor420 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x290 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:306
print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/ka
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |