CVE-2023-53457
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 2.6.12.1-4.14.323 - NULL Pointer Dereference in JFS txBegin
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0014
EPSS Percentile
3.9%
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-476
Status
published
Products (20)
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.12
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 1b4c144767736221cad92c132f72b3c6ed06a0ea
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 2a3f20efe6c901d4c0871cfd1d8c65e2ade71fc1
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 3e5eb6c5ecd8ddb9cfea751cf30f9e23eac97ca3
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 3e94d0d378d2754b26fc54b429582553f7b53e15
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 47cfdc338d674d38f4b2f22b7612cc6a2763ba27
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - a7225e9e09519deb7e0c42eb6070029cc456e84d
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - a7d17d6bd7cd4f6940b335ea7a6fce5b6d22adc2
Linux/Linux
1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - fd2db13fb72ff18c633a48229589d42ceb89d1f8
Linux/Linux
2.6.12
... and 10 more
Published
Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026