CVE-2023-53473
HIGHLinux Kernel 5.2-5.15.111 - Denial of Service via ext4_dirhash Error Handling
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: improve error handling from ext4_dirhash() The ext4_dirhash() will *almost* never fail, especially when the hash tree feature was first introduced. However, with the addition of support of encrypted, casefolded file names, that function can most certainly fail today. So make sure the callers of ext4_dirhash() properly check for failures, and reflect the errors back up to their callers.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.0015
EPSS Percentile
5.1%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.29linux
linux/Kernel
5.2.0 - 5.15.112linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.2.16linux
linux/Kernel
6.3.0 - 6.3.3linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.2
Linux/Linux
5.15.112 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.2
Linux/Linux
6.1.29 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux
6.2.16 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux
6.3.3 - 6.3.*
... and 8 more
Published
Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026