{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53988 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-53988 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-53988 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-53988 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux, published on 24 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-53988 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-2023-53988/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53988/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-53988","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53988/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-53988","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-53988","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53988","GHSA-fv37-p8q5-m4r6","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53988"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel NTFS3","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A slab-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel NTFS3 driver allows attackers to cause a kernel panic via a malicious filesystem image.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hdr_delete_de()\n\nHere is a BUG report from syzbot:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hdr_delete_de+0xe0/0x150 fs/ntfs3/index.c:806\nRead of size 16842960 at addr ffff888079cc0600 by task syz-executor934/3631\n\nCall Trace:\n memmove+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:54\n hdr_delete_de+0xe0/0x150 fs/ntfs3/index.c:806\n indx_delete_entry+0x74f/0x3670 fs/ntfs3/index.c:2193\n ni_remove_name+0x27a/0x980 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2910\n ntfs_unlink_inode+0x3d4/0x720 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:1712\n ntfs_rename+0x41a/0xcb0 fs/ntfs3/namei.c:276\n\nBefore using the meta-data in struct INDEX_HDR, we need to\ncheck index header valid or not. Otherwise, the corruptedi\n(or malicious) fs image can cause out-of-bounds access which\ncould make kernel panic.","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":"fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hdr_delete_de()","id":"CVE-2023-53988","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"arm64: mm: fix VA-range sanity check","id":"CVE-2023-53989"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ping: Fix potentail NULL deref for /proc/net/icmp.","id":"CVE-2023-53987"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2025-12-24","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 slab-out-of-bounds read in the Linux kernel NTFS3 driver allows attackers to cause a kernel panic via a malicious filesystem image.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-53988/"}