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Linux Kernel CVE-2023-53317

MEDIUM
2025-09-16 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
5.3 MEDIUM
qualitative

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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

3
Analysis Generated
Mar 28, 2026 - 19:12 vuln.today
Patch released
Mar 28, 2026 - 19:12 nvd
Patch available
CVE Published
Sep 16, 2025 - 17:15 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5

DescriptionCVE.org

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

ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent

Syzbot found the following issue:

EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support! EXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: ffff8880783457c0 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000040 RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402 R10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc FS: 0000555556665300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: 0000000022437000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286 ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651 ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920 ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105 write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline] get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130 do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline] qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420 v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358 dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444 ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740 dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914 __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492 ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline] ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644 get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489 do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Add some debug information: mb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@3735929054 64 64 7 block_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff

Acctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has 128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's bitmap if set. To resolve above issue, add check like fsck "Padding at end of block bitmap is not set".

AnalysisAI

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent Syzbot found the following issue: EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Technical ContextAI

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent Syzbot found the following issue: EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support! EXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: ffff8880783457c0 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000040 RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402 R10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc FS: 0000555556665300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: 0000000022437000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286 ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651 ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864 ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920 ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105 write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline] get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130 do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375 dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline] qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420 v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358 dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444 ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740 dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914 __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492 ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329 ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474 __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline] ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644 get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282 vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489 do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145 do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline] __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline] __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Add some debug information: mb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@3735929054 64 64 7 block_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff Acctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has 128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's bitmap if set. To resolve above issue, add check like fsck "Padding at end of block bitmap is not set". Affected products include: Linux Linux Kernel.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available. Apply the latest security update as soon as possible. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Medium
Product Status
Container suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.3:latest Container suse/sle-micro-rancher/5.4:5.4.4.5.72 Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Proxy-4-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Manager-Server-4-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-3-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Micro-5-4-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-SAP Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-GCE Image SLES15-SP4-SAPCAL Image SLES15-SP4-SAPCAL-Azure Image SLES15-SP4-SAPCAL-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-SAPCAL-GCE Affected
Container suse/sle-micro/base-5.5:2.0.4-5.8.212 Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP5-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Image SLES15-SP5-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Proxy-5-0-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-Azure-llc Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-Azure-ltd Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-EC2-llc Image SLES15-SP5-Manager-Server-5-0-EC2-ltd Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Micro-5-5-GCE Image SLES15-SP5-SAPCAL-Azure Image SLES15-SP5-SAPCAL-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-SAPCAL-GCE Affected
Container suse/sle-micro/kvm-5.5:2.0.4-3.5.405 Affected
Container suse/sle-micro/rt-5.5:2.0.4-4.5.508 Affected
Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-HPC-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-ECS-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-On-Demand Affected

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