CVE-2023-53861

Updated on 09 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

Overview

About vulnerability

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

ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group

Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+1 more)

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

ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group

Group corruption check will access memory of grp and will trigger kernel crash if grp is NULL. So do NULL check before corruption check.

Fixes