CVE-2023-53165
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 4.6-4.14.323 - Uninitialized Memory Read in UDF Charset Conversion
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames For filenames that begin with . and are between 2 and 5 characters long, UDF charset conversion code would read uninitialized memory in the output buffer. The only practical impact is that the name may be prepended a "unification hash" when it is not actually needed but still it is good to fix this.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
4.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-908
Status
published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel
4.15.0 - 4.19.293linux
linux/Kernel
4.20.0 - 5.4.255linux
linux/Kernel
4.6.0 - 4.14.324linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.123linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.42linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.192linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.4.7linux
Linux/Linux
< 4.6
Linux/Linux
4.14.324 - 4.14.*
Linux/Linux
4.19.293 - 4.19.*
... and 16 more
Published
Sep 15, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026