Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-10-01T11:42:28.730Z

Last Modified :

2026-01-05T10:20:45.270Z

Source :

Linux
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-53457 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Linux
  • Linux Kernel
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2023-53457.

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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b4c144767736221cad92c132f72b3c6ed06a0ea cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a3f20efe6c901d4c0871cfd1d8c65e2ade71fc1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e5eb6c5ecd8ddb9cfea751cf30f9e23eac97ca3 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e94d0d378d2754b26fc54b429582553f7b53e15 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7225e9e09519deb7e0c42eb6070029cc456e84d cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7d17d6bd7cd4f6940b335ea7a6fce5b6d22adc2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd2db13fb72ff18c633a48229589d42ceb89d1f8 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025100105-CVE-2023-53457-629a@gregkh/T cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53457 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53457 cve-icon
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