CVE-2023-52588 f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during block migration

What is CVE-2023-52588?

CVE-2023-52588 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Mar 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during block migration

It needs to add missing gcing flag on page during block migration, in order to garantee migrated data be persisted during checkpoint, otherwise out-of-order persistency between data and node may cause data corruption after SPOR.

Similar issue was fixed by commit 2d1fe8a86bf5 ("f2fs: fix to tag gcing flag on page during file defragment").

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52588?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52588?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-52588 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52588 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2023-52588, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52588, GHSA-444h-7m84-gc93, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-52588, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52588.