{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2023-53616", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2025-10-04T15:40:38.481Z", "datePublished": "2025-10-04T15:44:23.056Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:15:09.391Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:15:09.391Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\njfs: fix invalid free of JFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap in diUnmount\n\nsyzbot found an invalid-free in diUnmount:\n\nBUG: KASAN: double-free in slab_free mm/slub.c:3661 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: double-free in __kmem_cache_free+0x71/0x110 mm/slub.c:3674\nFree of addr ffff88806f410000 by task syz-executor131/3632\n\n CPU: 0 PID: 3632 Comm: syz-executor131 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc7-syzkaller-00012-gca57f02295f1 #0\n Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022\n Call Trace:\n \n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284\n print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395\n kasan_report_invalid_free+0xac/0xd0 mm/kasan/report.c:460\n ____kasan_slab_free+0xfb/0x120\n kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:177 [inline]\n slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1724 [inline]\n slab_free_freelist_hook+0x12e/0x1a0 mm/slub.c:1750\n slab_free mm/slub.c:3661 [inline]\n __kmem_cache_free+0x71/0x110 mm/slub.c:3674\n diUnmount+0xef/0x100 fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c:195\n jfs_umount+0x108/0x370 fs/jfs/jfs_umount.c:63\n jfs_put_super+0x86/0x190 fs/jfs/super.c:194\n generic_shutdown_super+0x130/0x310 fs/super.c:492\n kill_block_super+0x79/0xd0 fs/super.c:1428\n deactivate_locked_super+0xa7/0xf0 fs/super.c:332\n cleanup_mnt+0x494/0x520 fs/namespace.c:1186\n task_work_run+0x243/0x300 kernel/task_work.c:179\n exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:38 [inline]\n do_exit+0x664/0x2070 kernel/exit.c:820\n do_group_exit+0x1fd/0x2b0 kernel/exit.c:950\n __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:961 [inline]\n __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:959 [inline]\n __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3b/0x40 kernel/exit.c:959\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\nJFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap is not setting to NULL after free in diUnmount.\nIf jfs_remount() free JFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap but then failed at diMount().\nJFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap will be freed once again.\nFix this problem by setting JFS_IP(ipimap)->i_imap to NULL after free." } ], "metrics": [ { "cvssV3_1": { "version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH" }, "scenarios": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached through the mount/remount syscall path on a locally attached JFS volume (loop device, removable media, or a container/appliance image), with no network component.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both the on-disk image and the remount operation, and can make `diMount()`'s `read_metapage()` fail deterministically (e.g. truncating the loop-backing file after mount) — no race and no uncontrollable memory-layout precondition.\nPR:L - Reaching the path needs mount/remount authority over the superblock rather than arbitrary root capability, and in practice this is delegated to low-privileged actors via removable-media automount, loop-mounted user images, and container/appliance mount helpers.\nUI:N - The same actor supplies the image, mounts it, performs the failing ro→rw remount, and triggers the second free at unmount; no separate victim action is required.\nS:U - The corruption stays within the kernel's own security authority — there is no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary crossed.\nC:H - The dangling `i_imap` yields a live use-after-free on a kmalloc-8k object that the attacker can reclaim via heap spray, and `diSync()` writes the freed object's contents back to the on-disk imap page, disclosing reclaimed kernel heap memory the attacker can read directly off the block device.\nI:H - A double free of a large SLUB object gives freelist corruption and type confusion (two live allocations aliasing one object), and the still-mounted read-write filesystem writes attacker-influenced counters and mutex state into the freed memory — an arbitrary-write primitive suitable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The immediate observed effect is a KASAN-reported invalid free leading to slab freelist corruption and kernel oops/panic, reproducible on demand." } ] } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "fs/jfs/jfs_imap.c" ], 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