CVE-2023-53786

Updated on 09 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

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

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey –table
“0 blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0 flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512”

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

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

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey –table
“0 blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0 flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512”

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

Fixes