CVE-2023-53485CWE-129

CVE-2023-53485

High · published October 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev

Syzkaller reported the following issue:

UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1965:6

index -84 is out of range for type 's8[341]' (aka 'signed char[341]')

CPU: 1 PID: 4995 Comm: syz-executor146 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc6-syzkaller-00037-gb6dad5178cea #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x1e7/0x2d0 lib/dump_stack.c:106

ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:217 [inline]

__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x11c/0x150 lib/ubsan.c:348

dbAllocDmapLev+0x3e5/0x430 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1965

dbAllocCtl+0x113/0x920 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1809

dbAllocAG+0x28f/0x10b0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:1350

dbAlloc+0x658/0xca0 fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c:874

dtSplitUp fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:974 [inline]

dtInsert+0xda7/0x6b00 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:863

jfs_create+0x7b6/0xbb0 fs/jfs/namei.c:137

lookup_open fs/namei.c:3492 [inline]

open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3560 [inline]

path_openat+0x13df/0x3170 fs/namei.c:3788

do_filp_open+0x234/0x490 fs/namei.c:3818

do_sys_openat2+0x13f/0x500 fs/open.c:1356

do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]

__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1388 [inline]

__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1383 [inline]

__x64_sys_openat+0x247/0x290 fs/open.c:1383

do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]

do_syscall_64+0x41/0xc0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7f1f4e33f7e9

Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 51 14 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48

RSP: 002b:00007ffc21129578 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000101

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f1f4e33f7e9

RDX: 000000000000275a RSI: 0000000020000040 RDI: 00000000ffffff9c

RBP: 00007f1f4e2ff080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f1f4e2ff110

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

</TASK>

The bug occurs when the dbAllocDmapLev()function attempts to access

dp->tree.stree[leafidx + LEAFIND] while the leafidx value is negative.

To rectify this, the patch introduces a safeguard within the

dbAllocDmapLev() function. A check has been added to verify if leafidx is

negative. If it is, the function immediately returns an I/O error, preventing

any further execution that could potentially cause harm.

Tested via syzbot.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00190 · 8.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-129 · Improper Validation of Array Index
Published
2025-10-01T16:15Z
Affected products (12)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 2.6.12.1, < 4.14.3244.14.324
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.15, < 4.19.2934.19.293
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.4.2555.4.255
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.5, < 5.10.1925.10.192
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1235.15.123
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.426.1.42
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.4.76.4.7
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 OCT 11:42Z
    fs: jfs: Fix UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in dbAllocDmapLev
    cvelistv5