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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request", "id": "2420309", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420309"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmd/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref in raid10_sync_request\ninit_resync() inits mempool and sets conf->have_replacemnt at the beginning\nof sync, close_sync() frees the mempool when sync is completed.\nAfter [1] recovery might be skipped and init_resync() is called but\nclose_sync() is not. null-ptr-deref occurs with r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio.\nThe following is one way to reproduce the issue.\n1) create a array, wait for resync to complete, mddev->recovery_cp is set\nto MaxSector.\n2) recovery is woken and it is skipped. conf->have_replacement is set to\n0 in init_resync(). close_sync() not called.\n3) some io errors and rdev A is set to WantReplacement.\n4) a new device is added and set to A's replacement.\n5) recovery is woken, A have replacement, but conf->have_replacemnt is\n0. r10bio->dev[i].repl_bio will not be alloced and null-ptr-deref\noccurs.\nFix it by not calling init_resync() if recovery skipped.\n[1] commit 7e83ccbecd60 (\"md/raid10: Allow skipping recovery when clean arrays are assembled\")"], "name": "CVE-2023-53832", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Out of support scope", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-12-09T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53832\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53832\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120954-CVE-2023-53832-6d46@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}