CVE-2023-53683

fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode()

Published: 10/7/2025 Last updated: 8/5/2026 Reserved: 10/7/2025

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode() syzbot is hitting WARN_ON() in hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode(), for crafted filesystem image can contain bogus length. There conditions are not kernel bugs that can justify kernel to panic.

CNA assigner: Linux (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67) Requested by: n/a

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Version	Score	Severity	Vector String
3.1	7.8	High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Opam packages affected (29)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes ortools_solvers orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt restricted shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
Linux	Linux	< 8.1.11

CVE-2023-53683

fs: hfsplus: remove WARN_ON() from hfsplus_cat_{read,write}_inode()

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Opam packages affected (29)

Products affected (1)

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