Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-53786

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey --table \ "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512" Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions a3998799fb4df0b0af8271a7d50c4269032397aa, 3.1, 0

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