CVE-2023-53328 - Vulnerability Details

- fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list

Description

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

fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list

ni_create_attr_list uses WARN_ON to catch error cases while generating
attribute list, which only prints out stack trace and may not be enough.
This repalces them with more proper error handling flow.

[ 59.666332] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000e
[ 59.673268] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 59.678354] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 59.682831] PGD 8000000005ff1067 P4D 8000000005ff1067 PUD 7dee067 PMD 0
[ 59.688556] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[ 59.692642] CPU: 0 PID: 198 Comm: poc Tainted: G B W 6.2.0-rc1+ #4
[ 59.698868] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 59.708795] RIP: 0010:ni_create_attr_list+0x505/0x860
[ 59.713657] Code: 7e 10 e8 5e d0 d0 ff 45 0f b7 76 10 48 8d 7b 16 e8 00 d1 d0 ff 66 44 89 73 16 4d 8d 75 0e 4c 89 f7 e8 3f d0 d0 ff 4c 8d8
[ 59.731559] RSP: 0018:ffff88800a56f1e0 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 59.735691] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88800b7b5088 RCX: ffffffffb83079fe
[ 59.741792] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffbb7f9fc0
[ 59.748423] RBP: ffff88800a56f3a8 R08: ffff88800b7b50a0 R09: fffffbfff76ff3f9
[ 59.754654] R10: ffffffffbb7f9fc7 R11: fffffbfff76ff3f8 R12: ffff88800b756180
[ 59.761552] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000050
[ 59.768323] FS: 00007feaa8c96440(0000) GS:ffff88806d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 59.776027] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 59.781395] CR2: 00007f3a2e0b1000 CR3: 000000000a5bc000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 59.787607] Call Trace:
[ 59.790271] <TASK>
[ 59.792488] ? __pfx_ni_create_attr_list+0x10/0x10
[ 59.797235] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0
[ 59.800856] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60
[ 59.805101] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20
[ 59.809296] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
[ 59.813421] ni_ins_attr_ext+0x52c/0x5c0
[ 59.817034] ? __pfx_ni_ins_attr_ext+0x10/0x10
[ 59.821926] ? __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170
[ 59.825718] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300
[ 59.829562] ? __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170
[ 59.833987] ? vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0
[ 59.836732] ? do_setxattr+0xce/0x150
[ 59.839807] ? setxattr+0x126/0x140
[ 59.842353] ? path_setxattr+0x164/0x180
[ 59.845275] ? __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90
[ 59.848838] ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[ 59.851898] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
[ 59.857046] ? stack_depot_save+0x17/0x20
[ 59.860299] ni_insert_attr+0x1ba/0x420
[ 59.863104] ? __pfx_ni_insert_attr+0x10/0x10
[ 59.867069] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
[ 59.869897] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2b/0x50
[ 59.874088] ? __create_object+0x3ae/0x5d0
[ 59.877865] ni_insert_resident+0xc4/0x1c0
[ 59.881430] ? __pfx_ni_insert_resident+0x10/0x10
[ 59.886355] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30
[ 59.891117] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0
[ 59.894383] ntfs_set_ea+0x90d/0xbf0
[ 59.897703] ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10
[ 59.901011] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0
[ 59.905308] ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50
[ 59.909811] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60
[ 59.914898] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10
[ 59.920250] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100
[ 59.924560] ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80
[ 59.928722] ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440
[ 59.932512] ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[ 59.936634] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[ 59.940378] ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60
[ 59.943870] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60
[ 59.947719] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40
[ 59.951417] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30
[ 59.955733] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0
[ 59.959598] ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150
[ 59.963163] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[ 59.966490] ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0
---truncated---

Published: 2025-09-16

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Linux

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e`	affected	< e7799bb4dbe26bfb665f29ea87981708fd6012d8
`4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e`	affected	< 4246bbef0442f4a1e974df0ab091f4f33ac69451
`4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e`	affected	< 64fab8bce5237ca225ee1ec9dff5cc8c31b0631f
`4534a70b7056fd4b9a1c6db5a4ce3c98546b291e`	affected	< fdec309c7672cbee4dc0229ee4cbb33c948a1bdd

Linux

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`5.15`	affected	—
`0`	unaffected	< 5.15
`5.15.128`	unaffected	≤ 5.15.*
`6.1.47`	unaffected	≤ 6.1.*
`6.4.12`	unaffected	≤ 6.4.*
`6.5`	unaffected	≤ *

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

No data.

Vendor	Product	Confidence	Versions
Linux	Linux Kernel	—	—

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-59933	In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list ni_create_attr_list uses WARN_ON to catch error cases while generating attribute list, which only prints out stack trace and may not be enough. This repalces them with more proper error handling flow. [ 59.666332] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000e [ 59.673268] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 59.678354] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 59.682831] PGD 8000000005ff1067 P4D 8000000005ff1067 PUD 7dee067 PMD 0 [ 59.688556] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 59.692642] CPU: 0 PID: 198 Comm: poc Tainted: G B W 6.2.0-rc1+ #4 [ 59.698868] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 59.708795] RIP: 0010:ni_create_attr_list+0x505/0x860 [ 59.713657] Code: 7e 10 e8 5e d0 d0 ff 45 0f b7 76 10 48 8d 7b 16 e8 00 d1 d0 ff 66 44 89 73 16 4d 8d 75 0e 4c 89 f7 e8 3f d0 d0 ff 4c 8d8 [ 59.731559] RSP: 0018:ffff88800a56f1e0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 59.735691] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88800b7b5088 RCX: ffffffffb83079fe [ 59.741792] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffbb7f9fc0 [ 59.748423] RBP: ffff88800a56f3a8 R08: ffff88800b7b50a0 R09: fffffbfff76ff3f9 [ 59.754654] R10: ffffffffbb7f9fc7 R11: fffffbfff76ff3f8 R12: ffff88800b756180 [ 59.761552] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000050 [ 59.768323] FS: 00007feaa8c96440(0000) GS:ffff88806d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 59.776027] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 59.781395] CR2: 00007f3a2e0b1000 CR3: 000000000a5bc000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 59.787607] Call Trace: [ 59.790271] <TASK> [ 59.792488] ? __pfx_ni_create_attr_list+0x10/0x10 [ 59.797235] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0 [ 59.800856] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60 [ 59.805101] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20 [ 59.809296] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 59.813421] ni_ins_attr_ext+0x52c/0x5c0 [ 59.817034] ? __pfx_ni_ins_attr_ext+0x10/0x10 [ 59.821926] ? __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170 [ 59.825718] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300 [ 59.829562] ? __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170 [ 59.833987] ? vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0 [ 59.836732] ? do_setxattr+0xce/0x150 [ 59.839807] ? setxattr+0x126/0x140 [ 59.842353] ? path_setxattr+0x164/0x180 [ 59.845275] ? __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90 [ 59.848838] ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [ 59.851898] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 59.857046] ? stack_depot_save+0x17/0x20 [ 59.860299] ni_insert_attr+0x1ba/0x420 [ 59.863104] ? __pfx_ni_insert_attr+0x10/0x10 [ 59.867069] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 59.869897] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2b/0x50 [ 59.874088] ? __create_object+0x3ae/0x5d0 [ 59.877865] ni_insert_resident+0xc4/0x1c0 [ 59.881430] ? __pfx_ni_insert_resident+0x10/0x10 [ 59.886355] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30 [ 59.891117] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0 [ 59.894383] ntfs_set_ea+0x90d/0xbf0 [ 59.897703] ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10 [ 59.901011] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0 [ 59.905308] ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50 [ 59.909811] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60 [ 59.914898] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10 [ 59.920250] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100 [ 59.924560] ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80 [ 59.928722] ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440 [ 59.932512] ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10 [ 59.936634] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120 [ 59.940378] ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60 [ 59.943870] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60 [ 59.947719] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40 [ 59.951417] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30 [ 59.955733] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0 [ 59.959598] ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150 [ 59.963163] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120 [ 59.966490] ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0 ---truncated---

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00019.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4246bbef0442f4a1e974df0ab091f4f33ac69451
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64fab8bce5237ca225ee1ec9dff5cc8c31b0631f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7799bb4dbe26bfb665f29ea87981708fd6012d8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdec309c7672cbee4dc0229ee4cbb33c948a1bdd
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091645-CVE-2023-53328-07a7@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53328
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53328

History

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-476
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091645-CVE-2023-53328-07a7@gregkh/T https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53328 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53328
Metrics	threat_severity `None`	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` threat_severity `Moderate`

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list ni_create_attr_list uses WARN_ON to catch error cases while generating attribute list, which only prints out stack trace and may not be enough. This repalces them with more proper error handling flow. [ 59.666332] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000e [ 59.673268] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 59.678354] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page [ 59.682831] PGD 8000000005ff1067 P4D 8000000005ff1067 PUD 7dee067 PMD 0 [ 59.688556] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [ 59.692642] CPU: 0 PID: 198 Comm: poc Tainted: G B W 6.2.0-rc1+ #4 [ 59.698868] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 59.708795] RIP: 0010:ni_create_attr_list+0x505/0x860 [ 59.713657] Code: 7e 10 e8 5e d0 d0 ff 45 0f b7 76 10 48 8d 7b 16 e8 00 d1 d0 ff 66 44 89 73 16 4d 8d 75 0e 4c 89 f7 e8 3f d0 d0 ff 4c 8d8 [ 59.731559] RSP: 0018:ffff88800a56f1e0 EFLAGS: 00010282 [ 59.735691] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88800b7b5088 RCX: ffffffffb83079fe [ 59.741792] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffbb7f9fc0 [ 59.748423] RBP: ffff88800a56f3a8 R08: ffff88800b7b50a0 R09: fffffbfff76ff3f9 [ 59.754654] R10: ffffffffbb7f9fc7 R11: fffffbfff76ff3f8 R12: ffff88800b756180 [ 59.761552] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000050 [ 59.768323] FS: 00007feaa8c96440(0000) GS:ffff88806d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 59.776027] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 59.781395] CR2: 00007f3a2e0b1000 CR3: 000000000a5bc000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 [ 59.787607] Call Trace: [ 59.790271] <TASK> [ 59.792488] ? __pfx_ni_create_attr_list+0x10/0x10 [ 59.797235] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0 [ 59.800856] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60 [ 59.805101] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20 [ 59.809296] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 59.813421] ni_ins_attr_ext+0x52c/0x5c0 [ 59.817034] ? __pfx_ni_ins_attr_ext+0x10/0x10 [ 59.821926] ? __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170 [ 59.825718] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300 [ 59.829562] ? __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170 [ 59.833987] ? vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0 [ 59.836732] ? do_setxattr+0xce/0x150 [ 59.839807] ? setxattr+0x126/0x140 [ 59.842353] ? path_setxattr+0x164/0x180 [ 59.845275] ? __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90 [ 59.848838] ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90 [ 59.851898] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc [ 59.857046] ? stack_depot_save+0x17/0x20 [ 59.860299] ni_insert_attr+0x1ba/0x420 [ 59.863104] ? __pfx_ni_insert_attr+0x10/0x10 [ 59.867069] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0 [ 59.869897] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2b/0x50 [ 59.874088] ? __create_object+0x3ae/0x5d0 [ 59.877865] ni_insert_resident+0xc4/0x1c0 [ 59.881430] ? __pfx_ni_insert_resident+0x10/0x10 [ 59.886355] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30 [ 59.891117] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0 [ 59.894383] ntfs_set_ea+0x90d/0xbf0 [ 59.897703] ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10 [ 59.901011] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0 [ 59.905308] ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50 [ 59.909811] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60 [ 59.914898] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10 [ 59.920250] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100 [ 59.924560] ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80 [ 59.928722] ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440 [ 59.932512] ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10 [ 59.936634] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120 [ 59.940378] ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60 [ 59.943870] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60 [ 59.947719] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40 [ 59.951417] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30 [ 59.955733] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0 [ 59.959598] ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150 [ 59.963163] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120 [ 59.966490] ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0 ---truncated---
Title		fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4246bbef0442f4a1e974df0ab091f4f33ac69451 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64fab8bce5237ca225ee1ec9dff5cc8c31b0631f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7799bb4dbe26bfb665f29ea87981708fd6012d8 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fdec309c7672cbee4dc0229ee4cbb33c948a1bdd

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Linux Linux Kernel

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-09-16T16:12:04.352Z

Updated: 2026-05-11T19:42:49.421Z

Reserved: 2025-09-16T16:08:59.564Z

Link: CVE-2023-53328

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-01-14T18:29:18.324Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2025-09-16T17:15:39.053

Modified: 2026-01-14T19:16:27.400

Link: CVE-2023-53328

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2025-09-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-53328 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-09-17T10:04:30Z

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Tracking

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

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