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CVE-2023-53450

ext4: remove a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_release_group_pa() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: remove a BUG_ON in ext4_mb_release_group_pa() If a malicious fuzzer overwrites the ext4 superblock while it is mounted such that the s_first_data_block is set to a very large number, the calculation of the block group can underflow, and trigger a BUG_ON check. Change this to be an ext4_warning so that we don't crash the kernel.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before d5bf8f7fb3ee3d99d1303ceb54599ea0599a4a5b; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before ef16d8a1798db1a1604ac44ca1bd73ec6bebf483; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before 185062a21976fbc38f2efd296951b02c4500cf65; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before b0fc279de4bf17e1710bb7e83906538ff8f11111; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before 978e5e9111af18741449b81fefd531a622dd969a; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before d87a4e4094c9879fc8acdff8ce59fdffa979c8e0; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before bf2a16eb4e6d06124bd8436d4546f61539a65f29; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before 53c14e7cc2257191ba15425c15638fc4f8abb92b; affected c9de560ded61faa5b754137b7753da252391c55a before 463808f237cf73e98a1a45ff7460c2406a150a0b
Linux / Linuxaffected 2.6.25; unaffected 0 before 2.6.25; unaffected 4.14.315 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.283 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.243 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.180 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.112 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.29 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2.16 through 6.2.*; unaffected 6.3.3 through 6.3.*; unaffected 6.4 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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