CVE-2023-53457

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53457
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53457.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53457
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-10-01T11:42:28.730Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:46:47.722480Z
Summary
FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin
Details

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

FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin

Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53457.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2
Fixed
a7225e9e09519deb7e0c42eb6070029cc456e84d
Fixed
1b4c144767736221cad92c132f72b3c6ed06a0ea
Fixed
a7d17d6bd7cd4f6940b335ea7a6fce5b6d22adc2
Fixed
2a3f20efe6c901d4c0871cfd1d8c65e2ade71fc1
Fixed
3e94d0d378d2754b26fc54b429582553f7b53e15
Fixed
3e5eb6c5ecd8ddb9cfea751cf30f9e23eac97ca3
Fixed
fd2db13fb72ff18c633a48229589d42ceb89d1f8
Fixed
47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53457.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.6.12
Fixed
4.14.324
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.15.0
Fixed
4.19.293
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
4.20.0
Fixed
5.4.255
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
5.10.192
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.123
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.42
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53457.json"