CVE-2023-53692

CVE-2023-53692

High · published October 22, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

ext4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline

Syzbot found the following issue:

loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048

EXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx fs/ext4/extents.c:768 [inline]

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_find_extent+0x76e/0xd90 fs/ext4/extents.c:931

Read of size 4 at addr ffff888073644750 by task syz-executor420/5067

CPU: 0 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor420 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x290 lib/dump_stack.c:106

print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:306

print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:417

kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:517

ext4_ext_binsearch_idx fs/ext4/extents.c:768 [inline]

ext4_find_extent+0x76e/0xd90 fs/ext4/extents.c:931

ext4_clu_mapped+0x117/0x970 fs/ext4/extents.c:5809

ext4_insert_delayed_block fs/ext4/inode.c:1696 [inline]

ext4_da_map_blocks fs/ext4/inode.c:1806 [inline]

ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x9e8/0x13c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1870

ext4_block_write_begin+0x6a8/0x2290 fs/ext4/inode.c:1098

ext4_da_write_begin+0x539/0x760 fs/ext4/inode.c:3082

generic_perform_write+0x2e4/0x5e0 mm/filemap.c:3772

ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x122/0x3a0 fs/ext4/file.c:285

ext4_file_write_iter+0x1d0/0x18f0

call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2186 [inline]

new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]

vfs_write+0x7dc/0xc50 fs/read_write.c:584

ksys_write+0x177/0x2a0 fs/read_write.c:637

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

do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

RIP: 0033:0x7f4b7a9737b9

RSP: 002b:00007ffc5cac3668 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f4b7a9737b9

RDX: 00000000175d9003 RSI: 0000000020000200 RDI: 0000000000000004

RBP: 00007f4b7a933050 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000

R10: 000000000000079f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f4b7a9330e0

R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

</TASK>

Above issue is happens when enable bigalloc and inline data feature. As

commit 131294c35ed6 fixed delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for

bigalloc + inline. But it only resolved issue when has inline data, if

inline data has been converted to extent(ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent)

before writepages, there is no EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag. However

i_data is still store inline data in this scene. Then will trigger UAF

when find extent.

To resolve above issue, there is need to add judge "ext4_has_inline_data(inode)"

in ext4_clu_mapped().

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
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Published
2025-10-22T18:15Z
References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 OCT 13:23Z
    ext4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline
    cvelistv5