CVE-2023-54130

Linux Kernel 5.16.0-5.19.17, 6.0.0-6.0.18, 6.1.0-6.1.4 - Denial of Service via Corrupted HFS Image

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hfs/hfsplus: avoid WARN_ON() for sanity check, use proper error handling Commit 55d1cbbbb29e ("hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check") fixed a build warning by turning a comment into a WARN_ON(), but it turns out that syzbot then complains because it can trigger said warning with a corrupted hfs image. The warning actually does warn about a bad situation, but we are much better off just handling it as the error it is. So rather than warn about us doing bad things, stop doing the bad things and return -EIO. While at it, also fix a memory leak that was introduced by an earlier fix for a similar syzbot warning situation, and add a check for one case that historically wasn't handled at all (ie neither comment nor subsequent WARN_ON).

Scores

EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 9.1%

Details

Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.0.19linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.0 - 6.1.5linux
Linux/Linux < 5.16
Linux/Linux 2344f17c0a89c181ab1a9fef57fd8c3bddfd6e30 - 82725be426bce0a425cc5e26fbad61ffd29cff03
Linux/Linux 367296925c7625c3969d2a78d7a3e1dee161beb5
Linux/Linux 4.9.337 - 4.10
Linux/Linux 48d9e2e6de01ed35e965eb549758a837c07b601d - f10defb0be6ac42fb6a97b45920d32da6bd6fde8
Linux/Linux 4fd3a11804c8877ff11fec59c5c53f1635331e3e - be01f35efa876eb81cebab2cb0add068b7280ef4
Linux/Linux 5.16
Linux/Linux 55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb - 45917be9f0af339a45b4619f31c902d37b8aed59
... and 8 more
Published Dec 24, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026