{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53846 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53846 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 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-2023-53846 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53846 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 9 Dec 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-2023-53846 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2023-53846/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53846/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53846","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53846/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53846","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53846","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53846","GHSA-2r6x-xmcw-65m8","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2023-53846","ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2023-53846","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2023-53846","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53846"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel f2fs","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's f2fs filesystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted file operations.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nf2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()\n\nsyzbot reports below bug:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88802a25c000 by task syz-executor148/5000\n\nCPU: 1 PID: 5000 Comm: syz-executor148 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7-syzkaller-00041-ge660abd551f1 #0\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/27/2023\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x3c0 mm/kasan/report.c:351\n print_report mm/kasan/report.c:462 [inline]\n kasan_report+0x11c/0x130 mm/kasan/report.c:572\n f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range+0x122a/0x14c0 fs/f2fs/file.c:574\n truncate_dnode+0x229/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/node.c:944\n f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks+0x64b/0xde0 fs/f2fs/node.c:1154\n f2fs_do_truncate_blocks+0x4ac/0xf30 fs/f2fs/file.c:721\n f2fs_truncate_blocks+0x7b/0x300 fs/f2fs/file.c:749\n f2fs_truncate.part.0+0x4a5/0x630 fs/f2fs/file.c:799\n f2fs_truncate include/linux/fs.h:825 [inline]\n f2fs_setattr+0x1738/0x2090 fs/f2fs/file.c:1006\n notify_change+0xb2c/0x1180 fs/attr.c:483\n do_truncate+0x143/0x200 fs/open.c:66\n handle_truncate fs/namei.c:3295 [inline]\n do_open fs/namei.c:3640 [inline]\n path_openat+0x2083/0x2750 fs/namei.c:3791\n do_filp_open+0x1ba/0x410 fs/namei.c:3818\n do_sys_openat2+0x16d/0x4c0 fs/open.c:1356\n do_sys_open fs/open.c:1372 [inline]\n __do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1448 [inline]\n __se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1442 [inline]\n __x64_sys_creat+0xcd/0x120 fs/open.c:1442\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nThe root cause is, inodeA references inodeB via inodeB's ino, once inodeA\nis truncated, it calls truncate_dnode() to truncate data blocks in inodeB's\nnode page, it traverse mapping data from node-\u003ei.i_addr[0] to\nnode-\u003ei.i_addr[ADDRS_PER_BLOCK() - 1], result in out-of-boundary access.\n\nThis patch fixes to add sanity check on dnode page in truncate_dnode(),\nso that, it can help to avoid triggering such issue, and once it encounters\nsuch issue, it will record newly introduced ERROR_INVALID_NODE_REFERENCE\nerror into superblock, later fsck can detect such issue and try repairing.\n\nAlso, it removes f2fs_truncate_data_blocks() for cleanup due to the\nfunction has only one caller, and uses f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range()\ninstead.","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":"f2fs: fix to do sanity check on direct node in truncate_dnode()","id":"CVE-2023-53846","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"usb-storage: alauda: Fix uninit-value in alauda_check_media()","id":"CVE-2023-53847"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"nilfs2: fix infinite loop in nilfs_mdt_get_block()","id":"CVE-2023-53845"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-09","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-05","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's f2fs filesystem allows local attackers to cause a system crash or potentially execute arbitrary code via crafted file operations.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53846/"}