{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53317","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  ext4: fix WARNING in mb_find_extent  Syzbot found the following issue:  EXT4-fs: Warning: mounting with data=journal disables delayed allocation, dioread_nolock, O_DIRECT and fast_commit support! EXT4-fs (loop0): orphan cleanup on readonly fs ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 Modules linked in: CPU: 1 PID: 5067 Comm: syz-executor307 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc1-syzkaller #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022 RIP: 0010:mb_find_extent+0x8a1/0xe30 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:1869 RSP: 0018:ffffc90003c9e098 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: ffffffff82405731 RBX: 0000000000000041 RCX: ffff8880783457c0 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000041 RDI: 0000000000000040 RBP: 0000000000000040 R08: ffffffff82405723 R09: ffffed10053c9402 R10: ffffed10053c9402 R11: 1ffff110053c9401 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffffc90003c9e538 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffffc90003c9e2cc FS:  0000555556665300(0000) GS:ffff8880b9900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000056312f6796f8 CR3: 0000000022437000 CR4: 00000000003506e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace:  \u003cTASK\u003e  ext4_mb_complex_scan_group+0x353/0x1100 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2307  ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x1533/0x3860 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:2735  ext4_mb_new_blocks+0xddf/0x3db0 fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5605  ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1868/0x6880 fs/ext4/extents.c:4286  ext4_map_blocks+0xa49/0x1cc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:651  ext4_getblk+0x1b9/0x770 fs/ext4/inode.c:864  ext4_bread+0x2a/0x170 fs/ext4/inode.c:920  ext4_quota_write+0x225/0x570 fs/ext4/super.c:7105  write_blk fs/quota/quota_tree.c:64 [inline]  get_free_dqblk+0x34a/0x6d0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:130  do_insert_tree+0x26b/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:340  do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375  do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375  do_insert_tree+0x722/0x1aa0 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:375  dq_insert_tree fs/quota/quota_tree.c:401 [inline]  qtree_write_dquot+0x3b6/0x530 fs/quota/quota_tree.c:420  v2_write_dquot+0x11b/0x190 fs/quota/quota_v2.c:358  dquot_acquire+0x348/0x670 fs/quota/dquot.c:444  ext4_acquire_dquot+0x2dc/0x400 fs/ext4/super.c:6740  dqget+0x999/0xdc0 fs/quota/dquot.c:914  __dquot_initialize+0x3d0/0xcf0 fs/quota/dquot.c:1492  ext4_process_orphan+0x57/0x2d0 fs/ext4/orphan.c:329  ext4_orphan_cleanup+0xb60/0x1340 fs/ext4/orphan.c:474  __ext4_fill_super fs/ext4/super.c:5516 [inline]  ext4_fill_super+0x81cd/0x8700 fs/ext4/super.c:5644  get_tree_bdev+0x400/0x620 fs/super.c:1282  vfs_get_tree+0x88/0x270 fs/super.c:1489  do_new_mount+0x289/0xad0 fs/namespace.c:3145  do_mount fs/namespace.c:3488 [inline]  __do_sys_mount fs/namespace.c:3697 [inline]  __se_sys_mount+0x2d3/0x3c0 fs/namespace.c:3674  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]  do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd  Add some debug information: mb_find_extent: mb_find_extent block=41, order=0 needed=64 next=0 ex=0/41/1@3735929054 64 64 7 block_bitmap: ff 3f 0c 00 fc 01 00 00 d2 3d 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff  Acctually, blocks per group is 64, but block bitmap indicate at least has 128 blocks. Now, ext4_validate_block_bitmap() didn't check invalid block's bitmap if set. To resolve above issue, add check like fsck \"Padding at end of block bitmap is not set\".","modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:02.724301428Z","published":"2025-09-16T17:15:37.713Z","upstream":["CVE-2023-53317"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53317"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.37-1"}]}],"versions":["6.1.27-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53317.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53317.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.3.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53317.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}