{"cve":"CVE-2023-53692","nvd":{"published":"2025-10-22T14:15:43.670","modified":"2026-10-28T19:10:00.193","status":"Deferred","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: fix use-after-free read in ext4_find_extent for bigalloc + inline\n\nSyzbot found the following issue:\nloop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048\nEXT4-fs (loop0): mounted filesystem 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 without journal. Quota mode: none.\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx fs/ext4/extents.c:768 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ext4_find_extent+0x76e/0xd90 fs/ext4/extents.c:931\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff888073644750 by task syz-executor420/5067\n\nCPU: 0 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor420 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x290 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:306\n print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:417\n kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:517\n ext4_ext_binsearch_idx fs/ext4/extents.c:768 [inline]\n ext4_find_extent+0x76e/0xd90 fs/ext4/extents.c:931\n ext4_clu_mapped+0x117/0x970 fs/ext4/extents.c:5809\n ext4_insert_delayed_block fs/ext4/inode.c:1696 [inline]\n ext4_da_map_blocks fs/ext4/inode.c:1806 [inline]\n ext4_da_get_block_prep+0x9e8/0x13c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1870\n ext4_block_write_begin+0x6a8/0x2290 fs/ext4/inode.c:1098\n ext4_da_write_begin+0x539/0x760 fs/ext4/inode.c:3082\n generic_perform_write+0x2e4/0x5e0 mm/filemap.c:3772\n ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x122/0x3a0 fs/ext4/file.c:285\n ext4_file_write_iter+0x1d0/0x18f0\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\nRIP: 0033:0x7f4b7a9737b9\nRSP: 002b:00007ffc5cac3668 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f4b7a9737b9\nRDX: 00000000175d9003 RSI: 0000000020000200 RDI: 0000000000000004\nRBP: 00007f4b7a933050 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 000000000000079f R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f4b7a9330e0\nR13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n </TASK>\n\nAbove issue is happens when enable bigalloc and inline data feature. As\ncommit 131294c35ed6 fixed delayed allocation bug in ext4_clu_mapped for\nbigalloc + inline. But it only resolved issue when has inline data, if\ninline data has been converted to extent(ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent)\nbefore writepages, there is no EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag. However\ni_data is still store inline data in this scene. Then will trigger UAF\nwhen find extent.\nTo resolve above issue, there is need to add judge \"ext4_has_inline_data(inode)\"\nin ext4_clu_mapped().","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ce15000dee0ecd6f235f925a327803e2ef489c6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c87c8df2cae1d6be83c07e59fef0792de73482","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14da044725a3ab10affa3566d29c15737c0e67a4","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40566def189c513be2c694681256d7486cc6e368","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/770b0613637f59f3091dda1ff0c23671a5326b9c"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-28T19:37:43.506563291+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-53692","score":0.0016,"percentile":0.0513,"date":"2026-10-28"},"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."]}