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CVE-2023-53457

FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin

3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.
Affected products
Linux · Linux