{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53323 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53323 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53323 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53323 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53323 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53323/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53323/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53323","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53323/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53323","record":{"aliases":["AZL-71885","BELL-CVE-2023-53323","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53323","GHSA-2f9c-chxh-5h7v","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53323","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53323"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel ext2","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel BUG_ON crash in the ext2 filesystem when using DAX on a page-aligned truncate operation, causing a denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-617","name":"Reachable Assertion"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned\n\nPAGE_ALIGN(x) macro gives the next highest value which is multiple of\npagesize. But if x is already page aligned then it simply returns x.\nSo, if x passed is 0 in dax_zero_range() function, that means the\nlength gets passed as 0 to -\u003eiomap_begin().\n\nIn ext2 it then calls ext2_get_blocks -\u003e max_blocks as 0 and hits bug_on\nhere in ext2_get_blocks().\n\tBUG_ON(maxblocks == 0);\n\nInstead we should be calling dax_truncate_page() here which takes\ncare of it. i.e. it only calls dax_zero_range if the offset is not\npage/block aligned.\n\nThis can be easily triggered with following on fsdax mounted pmem\ndevice.\n\ndd if=/dev/zero of=file count=1 bs=512\ntruncate -s 0 file\n\n[79.525838] EXT2-fs (pmem0): DAX enabled. Warning: EXPERIMENTAL, use at your own risk\n[79.529376] ext2 filesystem being mounted at /mnt1/test supports timestamps until 2038 (0x7fffffff)\n[93.793207] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[93.795102] kernel BUG at fs/ext2/inode.c:637!\n[93.796904] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI\n[93.798659] CPU: 0 PID: 1192 Comm: truncate Not tainted 6.3.0-rc2-xfstests-00056-g131086faa369 #139\n[93.806459] RIP: 0010:ext2_get_blocks.constprop.0+0x524/0x610\n\u003c...\u003e\n[93.835298] Call Trace:\n[93.836253]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[93.837103]  ? lock_acquire+0xf8/0x110\n[93.838479]  ? d_lookup+0x69/0xd0\n[93.839779]  ext2_iomap_begin+0xa7/0x1c0\n[93.841154]  iomap_iter+0xc7/0x150\n[93.842425]  dax_zero_range+0x6e/0xa0\n[93.843813]  ext2_setsize+0x176/0x1b0\n[93.845164]  ext2_setattr+0x151/0x200\n[93.846467]  notify_change+0x341/0x4e0\n[93.847805]  ? lock_acquire+0xf8/0x110\n[93.849143]  ? do_truncate+0x74/0xe0\n[93.850452]  ? do_truncate+0x84/0xe0\n[93.851739]  do_truncate+0x84/0xe0\n[93.852974]  do_sys_ftruncate+0x2b4/0x2f0\n[93.854404]  do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90\n[93.855789]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ext2/dax: Fix ext2_setsize when len is page aligned","id":"CVE-2023-53323","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"drm/msm/mdp5: Don't leak some plane state","id":"CVE-2023-53324"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"scsi: qla2xxx: Wait for io return on terminate rport","id":"CVE-2023-53322"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-09-16","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can trigger a kernel BUG_ON crash in the ext2 filesystem when using DAX on a page-aligned truncate operation, causing a denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53323/"}