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FKIE_CVE-2023-53513

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-10-01 12:15 - Updated: 2026-01-26 20:11

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: Undefined behaviour in fs/buffer.c:1709:35 signed integer overflow: -9223372036854775808 - 1 cannot be represented in type 'long long int' CPU: 3 PID: 2523 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.90 #1 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x3f0 arch/arm64/kernel/time.c:78 show_stack+0x28/0x38 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c:158 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline] dump_stack+0x170/0x1dc lib/dump_stack.c:118 ubsan_epilogue+0x18/0xb4 lib/ubsan.c:161 handle_overflow+0x188/0x1dc lib/ubsan.c:192 __ubsan_handle_sub_overflow+0x34/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:206 __block_write_full_page+0x94c/0xa20 fs/buffer.c:1709 block_write_full_page+0x1f0/0x280 fs/buffer.c:2934 blkdev_writepage+0x34/0x40 fs/block_dev.c:607 __writepage+0x68/0xe8 mm/page-writeback.c:2305 write_cache_pages+0x44c/0xc70 mm/page-writeback.c:2240 generic_writepages+0xdc/0x148 mm/page-writeback.c:2329 blkdev_writepages+0x2c/0x38 fs/block_dev.c:2114 do_writepages+0xd4/0x250 mm/page-writeback.c:2344 The reason for triggering this warning is __block_write_full_page() -> i_size_read(inode) - 1 overflow. inode->i_size is assigned in __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_set_size() -> bytesize. We think it is necessary to limit the size of arg to prevent errors. Moreover, __nbd_ioctl() -> nbd_add_socket(), arg will be cast to int. Assuming the value of arg is 0x80000000000000001) (on a 64-bit machine), it will become 1 after the coercion, which will return unexpected results. Fix it by adding checks to prevent passing in too large numbers.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52851d0c3354b397c11d31dfeb8b2a2fc85a0002	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55793ea54d77719a071b1ccc05a05056e3b5e009	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fab766c8a1aff715bce7075aab40e780266f8e1a	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb75ffaa68723276365d0f9d00b03362b750657	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*

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CVE-2023-53513 (GCVE-0-2023-53513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-01 11:46 – Updated: 2026-01-05 10:21

Title

nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52851d0c3354b397c…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fab766c8a1aff715b…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffb75ffaa68723276…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55793ea54d77719a0…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: b9c495bb6d8edc719fd23af2ac67de8303cfc1e8 , < 52851d0c3354b397c11d31dfeb8b2a2fc85a0002 (git)
Affected: b9c495bb6d8edc719fd23af2ac67de8303cfc1e8 , < fab766c8a1aff715bce7075aab40e780266f8e1a (git)
Affected: b9c495bb6d8edc719fd23af2ac67de8303cfc1e8 , < ffb75ffaa68723276365d0f9d00b03362b750657 (git)
Affected: b9c495bb6d8edc719fd23af2ac67de8303cfc1e8 , < 55793ea54d77719a071b1ccc05a05056e3b5e009 (git)

Linux

Affected: 4.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2023-53513 (GCVE-0-2023-53513)

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