CVE-2023-53457: 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: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.12.1, before 4.14.324 (fixed in 4.14.324); from 4.15, before 4.19.293 (fixed in 4.19.293); from 4.20, before 5.4.255 (fixed in 5.4.255); from 5.5, before 5.10.192 (fixed in 5.10.192); from 5.11, before 5.15.123 (fixed in 5.15.123); from 5.16, before 6.1.42 (fixed in 6.1.42); …

Published 2025-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.