CVE-2023-53681 (GCVE-0-2023-53681)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-07 15:21 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:49
VLAI
Title
bcache: Fix __bch_btree_node_alloc to make the failure behavior consistent
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bcache: Fix __bch_btree_node_alloc to make the failure behavior consistent In some specific situations, the return value of __bch_btree_node_alloc may be NULL. This may lead to a potential NULL pointer dereference in caller function like a calling chain : btree_split->bch_btree_node_alloc->__bch_btree_node_alloc. Fix it by initializing the return value in __bch_btree_node_alloc.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < 587b4e8bb5dac682f09280ab35db4632b29d5ac4 (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < b070f29a61436f6f8a2e3abc7ea4f4be81695198 (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < a4405f6ee03323410d7b10966fd67b35f71b1944 (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < f67b0e3081f2a24170280a33ac66f6b112083c03 (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < 7ecea5ce3dc17339c280c75b58ac93d8c8620d9f (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < 4514847aee18d9391a0cf3aad75d3567c72795a4 (git)
Affected: cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060 , < 80fca8a10b604afad6c14213fdfd816c4eda3ee4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.291 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.253 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.188 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.121 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.39 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4.4 , ≤ 6.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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