CVE-2023-53861

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53861
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53861.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-53861
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
OESA (1)
RHSA (2)
SUSE (8)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
SUSE (8)
Published
2025-12-09T01:30:29Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:48:13Z
Summary
ext4: correct grp validation in ext4_mb_good_group
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53861.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
100c0ad6c04597fefeaaba2bb1827cc015d95067
Fixed
245759d987b617d183061db6ab8886ebb5cc78e9
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
620a3c28221bb219b81bc0bffd065cc187494302
Fixed
3e24082f16825279054a2b8a5e668d65070bbf07
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
b4319e457d6e3fb33e443efeaf4634fc36e8a9ed
Fixed
772ca4bc1d0d21320ef2ecc0f9e4f90ea85a035d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5354b2af34064a4579be8bc0e2f15a7b70f14b5f
Fixed
83a9d5f5ec7e75640b1ba0bbd77a4888df798bb4
Fixed
e69d665987db0e37896adf78a7e718f9a0a75d3f
Fixed
a9ce5993a0f5c0887c8a1b4ffa3b8046fbcfdc93
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.10.181
Fixed
5.10.195
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.113
Fixed
5.15.132
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.1.30
Fixed
6.1.53
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.3.4
Fixed
6.4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
31668cebf45adfb6283e465e641c4f5a21b07afa

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.10.181
v5.10.182
v5.10.183
v5.10.184
v5.10.185
v5.10.186
v5.10.187
v5.10.188
v5.10.189
v5.10.190
v5.10.191
v5.10.192
v5.10.193
v5.10.194
v5.15.113
v5.15.114
v5.15.115
v5.15.116
v5.15.117
v5.15.118
v5.15.119
v5.15.120
v5.15.121
v5.15.122
v5.15.123
v5.15.124
v5.15.125
v5.15.126
v5.15.127
v5.15.128
v5.15.129
v5.15.130
v5.15.131
v6.*
v6.1.30
v6.1.31
v6.1.32
v6.1.33
v6.1.34
v6.1.35
v6.1.36
v6.1.37
v6.1.38
v6.1.39
v6.1.40
v6.1.41
v6.1.42
v6.1.43
v6.1.44
v6.1.45
v6.1.46
v6.1.47
v6.1.48
v6.1.49
v6.1.50
v6.1.51
v6.1.52
v6.3.10
v6.3.11
v6.3.12
v6.3.13
v6.3.4
v6.3.5
v6.3.6
v6.3.7
v6.3.8
v6.3.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53861.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.10.195
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.132
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.53
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.4.16
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.4.0
Fixed
6.5.3

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-53861.json"