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CVE-2023-54062

ext4: fix invalid free tracking in ext4_xattr_move_to_block()

EPSS 0.2%
Vexday Risk Score
3Baixo
Decisão SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sem sinal de exploração → monitorar
CVSS EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Ciclo de vida
24 dez 2025Publicada no NVD
Recomendação: Monitorar — sem sinal de exploração no momento.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix invalid free tracking in ext4_xattr_move_to_block() In ext4_xattr_move_to_block(), the value of the extended attribute which we need to move to an external block may be allocated by kvmalloc() if the value is stored in an external inode. So at the end of the function the code tried to check if this was the case by testing entry->e_value_inum. However, at this point, the pointer to the xattr entry is no longer valid, because it was removed from the original location where it had been stored. So we could end up calling kvfree() on a pointer which was not allocated by kvmalloc(); or we could also potentially leak memory by not freeing the buffer when it should be freed. Fix this by storing whether it should be freed in a separate variable.
Produtos afetados
Linux · Linux