CVE-2023-54317

Linux Kernel Memory Corruption via dm-flakey Zero Page Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm flakey: don't corrupt the zero page When we need to zero some range on a block device, the function __blkdev_issue_zero_pages submits a write bio with the bio vector pointing to the zero page. If we use dm-flakey with corrupt bio writes option, it will corrupt the content of the zero page which results in crashes of various userspace programs. Glibc assumes that memory returned by mmap is zeroed and it uses it for calloc implementation; if the newly mapped memory is not zeroed, calloc will return non-zeroed memory. Fix this bug by testing if the page is equal to ZERO_PAGE(0) and avoiding the corruption in this case.

Scores

EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.7%

Details

Status published
Products (29)
linux/Kernel < 4.14.308linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.276linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.235linux
linux/Kernel 5.0.0 - 5.10.173linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 6.1.16linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.2.3linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.15.99linux
Linux/Linux < 5.0
Linux/Linux 1ed7c9f45fb893877ffa7cedd7aa61beaadbb328
Linux/Linux 4.14.158 - 4.14.308
... and 19 more
Published Dec 30, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026