CVE-2023-53838: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: synchronize atomic write aborts To fix a race condition between atomic write aborts, I use the inode lock and make COW inode to be re-usable thoroughout the whole atomic file inode lifetime.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.18.18, before 5.19 (fixed in 5.19); from 5.19, before 6.1.18 (fixed in 6.1.18); from 6.2, before 6.2.5 (fixed in 6.2.5)

Published 2025-12-09. Last modified 2026-08-04.