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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2023-53265 json

ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

published 2025-09-16 13 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-59924

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

Ensure that the VID header offset + VID header size does not exceed the allocated area to avoid slab OOB.

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802bb36f00 by task syz-executor136/1555

CPU: 2 PID: 1555 Comm: syz-executor136 Tainted: G W 6.0.0-1868 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x85/0xad lib/dump_stack.c:106 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline] print_report.cold.13+0xb6/0x6bb mm/kasan/report.c:433 kasan_report+0xa7/0x11b mm/kasan/report.c:495 crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline] crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline] crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197 ubi_io_write_vid_hdr+0x1b7/0x472 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:1067 create_vtbl+0x4d5/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:317 create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline] ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812 ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601 ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965 ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0 RIP: 0033:0x7f96d5cf753d Code: RSP: 002b:00007fffd72206f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f96d5cf753d RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000040186f40 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 0000000000400cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400be0 R13: 00007fffd72207e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 </TASK>

Allocated by task 1555: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x3d mm/kasan/common.c:38 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline] set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline] ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline] __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xa3 mm/kasan/common.c:525 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline] __kmalloc+0x138/0x257 mm/slub.c:4429 kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:605 [inline] ubi_alloc_vid_buf drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:1093 [inline] create_vtbl+0xcc/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:295 create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline] ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812 ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601 ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965 ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bb36e00 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256 The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of 256-byte region [ffff88802bb36e00, ffff88802bb36f00)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:00000000ea4d1263 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x2bb36 head:00000000ea4d1263 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) raw: 000fffffc0010200 ffffea000066c300 dead000000000003 ffff888100042b40 raw: 0000000000000000 00000000001 ---truncated---

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 4.14.308, 4.19.276, 5.4.235, 5.10.173, 5.15.100, 6.1.18, 6.2.5, 6.3
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.1.20-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53265

  • linux Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-152.169
  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-79.86
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1104.112
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1042.47
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1107.116
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1039.47
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1039.44
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4.0-1051.56

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53265

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.5 5.14.21-150500.13.109.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.5 5.14.21-150500.13.109.1
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.133.1
  • kernel-source-rt SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 5.14.21-150400.15.133.1
  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS +3 more 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP4-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.4 +7 more 5.14.21-150400.24.179.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:3761-1SUSE-SU-2025:3716-1SUSE-SU-2025:03628-1SUSE-SU-2025:03626-1SUSE-SU-2025:03615-1SUSE-SU-2025:03614-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-53265 updated cvss 4.4

kernel: ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
9 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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