CVE-2023-53457

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

published October 1, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-10-01T11:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:42Z
    FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin
    cvelistv5