CVE-2023-53165

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.6-4.14.323 - Uninitialized Memory Read in UDF Charset Conversion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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