# CVE-2023-53486: linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  fs/ntfs3: Enhance the attribute size check  This...

CVE-2023-53486 is fixed in 22 products on 1 platform, first by ALAS2023-2024-784, released December 5, 2024. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-53486
- Priority: High
- CVSS: 7.1 (high)
- EPSS: 0.0017
- CISA KEV: not listed
- Exploited (vendor report): no
- Publicly disclosed: no
- Published: Dec 5, 2024

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  fs/ntfs3: Enhance the attribute size check  This combines the overflow and boundary check so that all attribute size will be properly examined while enumerating them.  [  169.181521] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570 [  169.183161] Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880094b6240 by task mount/247 [  169.184046] [  169.184925] CPU: 0 PID: 247 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #3 [  169.185908] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [  169.187066] Call Trace: [  169.187492]  <TASK> [  169.188049]  dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63 [  169.188495]  print_report.cold+0xf5/0x689 [  169.188964]  ? run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570 [  169.189331]  kasan_report+0xa7/0x130 [  169.189714]  ? run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570 [  169.190079]  __asan_load1+0x51/0x60 [  169.190634]  run_unpack+0x2e3/0x570 [  169.191290]  ? run_pack+0x840/0x840 [  169.191569]  ? run_lookup_entry+0xb3/0x1f0 [  169.192443]  ? mi_enum_attr+0x20a/0x230 [  169.192886]  run_unpack_ex+0xad/0x3e0 [  169.193276]  ? run_unpack+0x570/0x570 [  169.193557]  ? ni_load_mi+0x80/0x80 [  169.193889]  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20 [  169.194236]  ? mi_init+0x4a/0x70 [  169.194496]  attr_load_runs_vcn+0x166/0x1c0 [  169.194851]  ? attr_data_write_resident+0x250/0x250 [  169.195188]  mi_read+0x133/0x2c0 [  169.195481]  ntfs_iget5+0x277/0x1780 [  169.196017]  ? call_rcu+0x1c7/0x330 [  169.196392]  ? ntfs_get_block_bmap+0x70/0x70 [  169.196708]  ? evict+0x223/0x280 [  169.197014]  ? __kmalloc+0x33/0x540 [  169.197305]  ? wnd_init+0x15b/0x1b0 [  169.197599]  ntfs_fill_super+0x1026/0x1ba0 [  169.197994]  ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0 [  169.198299]  ? vsprintf+0x20/0x20 [  169.198583]  ? mutex_unlock+0x81/0xd0 [  169.198930]  ? set_blocksize+0x95/0x150 [  169.199269]  get_tree_bdev+0x232/0x370 [  169.199750]  ? put_ntfs+0x1d0/0x1d0 [  169.200094]  ntfs_fs_get_tree+0x15/0x20 [  169.200431]  vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x130 [  169.200714]  path_mount+0x654/0xfe0 [  169.201067]  ? putname+0x80/0xa0 [  169.201358]  ? finish_automount+0x2e0/0x2e0 [  169.201965]  ? putname+0x80/0xa0 [  169.202445]  ? kmem_cache_free+0x1c4/0x440 [  169.203075]  ? putname+0x80/0xa0 [  169.203414]  do_mount+0xd6/0xf0 [  169.203719]  ? path_mount+0xfe0/0xfe0 [  169.203977]  ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x20 [  169.204382]  __x64_sys_mount+0xca/0x110 [  169.204711]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [  169.205059]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [  169.205571] RIP: 0033:0x7f67a80e948a [  169.206327] Code: 48 8b 0d 11 fa 2a 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 008 [  169.208296] RSP: 002b:00007ffddf020f58 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5 [  169.209253] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055e2547a6060 RCX: 00007f67a80e948a [  169.209777] RDX: 000055e2547a6260 RSI: 000055e2547a62e0 RDI: 000055e2547aeaf0 [  169.210342] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000055e2547a6280 R09: 0000000000000020 [  169.210843] R10: 00000000c0ed0000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 000055e2547aeaf0 [  169.211307] R13: 000055e2547a6260 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00000000ffffffff [  169.211913]  </TASK> [  169.212304] [  169.212680] Allocated by task 0: [  169.212963] (stack is not available) [  169.213200] [  169.213472] The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880094b5e00 [  169.213472]  which belongs to the cache UDP of size 1152 [  169.214095] The buggy address is located 1088 bytes inside of [  169.214095]  1152-byte region [ffff8880094b5e00, ffff8880094b6280) [  169.214639] [  169.215004] The buggy address belongs to the physical page: [  169.215766] page:000000002e324c8c refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x94b4 [  169.218412] head:000000002e324c8c order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 [  169.219078] flags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) [  169.220272] raw: 000fffffc0010200 ---truncated---

## Where it's fixed

| Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | bpftool amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | bpftool-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-devel amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-headers amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-libbpf amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-libbpf-devel amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-libbpf-static amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-livepatch-6.1.82-99.168 amzn 2023 | 1.0-0.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-modules-extra amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-modules-extra-common amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-tools amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-tools-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | kernel-tools-devel amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | linux Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 6.1.82-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53486](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2023-53486.md) | Oct 1, 2025 |
| Linux | linux Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 6.3.7-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53486](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2023-53486.md) | Oct 1, 2025 |
| Linux | linux Debian 14 | 6.3.7-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53486](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2023-53486.md) | Oct 1, 2025 |
| Linux | perf amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | perf-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | python3-perf amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |
| Linux | python3-perf-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 6.1.82-99.168.amzn2023 | [ALAS2023-2024-784](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2024-784.md) | Dec 5, 2024 |

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