CVE-2023-53091: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: update s_journal_inum if it changes after journal replay When mounting a crafted ext4 image, s_journal_inum may change after journal replay, which is obviously unreasonable because we have successfully loaded and replayed the journal through the old s_journal_inum. And the new s_journal_inum bypasses some of the checks in ext4_get_journal(), which may trigger a null pointer dereference problem. So if s_journal_inum changes after the journal replay, we ignore the change, and rewrite the current journal_inum to the superblock.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.15.104 (fixed in 5.15.104); from 5.16, before 6.1.21 (fixed in 6.1.21); from 6.2, before 6.2.8 (fixed in 6.2.8)

Published 2025-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.