{"cve":"CVE-2023-52900","nvd":{"published":"2024-08-21T07:15:06.297","modified":"2026-06-17T06:43:53.593","status":"Analyzed","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix general protection fault in nilfs_btree_insert()\n\nIf nilfs2 reads a corrupted disk image and tries to reads a b-tree node\nblock by calling __nilfs_btree_get_block() against an invalid virtual\nblock address, it returns -ENOENT because conversion of the virtual block\naddress to a disk block address fails.  However, this return value is the\nsame as the internal code that b-tree lookup routines return to indicate\nthat the block being searched does not exist, so functions that operate on\nthat b-tree may misbehave.\n\nWhen nilfs_btree_insert() receives this spurious 'not found' code from\nnilfs_btree_do_lookup(), it misunderstands that the 'not found' check was\nsuccessful and continues the insert operation using incomplete lookup path\ndata, causing the following crash:\n\n general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n 0xdffffc0000000005: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\n KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000028-0x000000000000002f]\n ...\n RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_get_nonroot_node fs/nilfs2/btree.c:418 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_prepare_insert fs/nilfs2/btree.c:1077 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:nilfs_btree_insert+0x6d3/0x1c10 fs/nilfs2/btree.c:1238\n Code: bc 24 80 00 00 00 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 42 80 3c 28 00 74 08 4c 89\n ff e8 4b 02 92 fe 4d 8b 3f 49 83 c7 28 4c 89 f8 48 c1 e8 03 <42> 80 3c\n 28 00 74 08 4c 89 ff e8 2e 02 92 fe 4d 8b 3f 49 83 c7 02\n ...\n Call Trace:\n <TASK>\n  nilfs_bmap_do_insert fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:121 [inline]\n  nilfs_bmap_insert+0x20d/0x360 fs/nilfs2/bmap.c:147\n  nilfs_get_block+0x414/0x8d0 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:101\n  __block_write_begin_int+0x54c/0x1a80 fs/buffer.c:1991\n  __block_write_begin fs/buffer.c:2041 [inline]\n  block_write_begin+0x93/0x1e0 fs/buffer.c:2102\n  nilfs_write_begin+0x9c/0x110 fs/nilfs2/inode.c:261\n  generic_perform_write+0x2e4/0x5e0 mm/filemap.c:3772\n  __generic_file_write_iter+0x176/0x400 mm/filemap.c:3900\n  generic_file_write_iter+0xab/0x310 mm/filemap.c:3932\n  call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2186 [inline]\n  new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]\n  vfs_write+0x7dc/0xc50 fs/read_write.c:584\n  ksys_write+0x177/0x2a0 fs/read_write.c:637\n  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n ...\n </TASK>\n\nThis patch fixes the root cause of this problem by replacing the error\ncode that __nilfs_btree_get_block() returns on block address conversion\nfailure from -ENOENT to another internal code -EINVAL which means that the\nb-tree metadata is corrupted.\n\nBy returning -EINVAL, it propagates without glitches, and for all relevant\nb-tree operations, functions in the upper bmap layer output an error\nmessage indicating corrupted b-tree metadata via\nnilfs_bmap_convert_error(), and code -EIO will be eventually returned as\nit should be.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf463939c09e5b2c35c71ed74a5fd60a74d6a04","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c2a2ff67d46106715c2132021b98bd057c27545","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45627a1a6450662e1e0f8174ef07b05710a20062","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/712bd74eccb9d3626a0a236641962eca8e11a243","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7633355e5c7f29c049a9048e461427d1d8ed3051"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:54:16.205165117+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-52900","score":0.00241,"percentile":0.15225,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}