Vulnerability · Published Dec 24, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2023-54069ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow

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A security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 11% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS )–Not rated
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 88.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: fix BUG in ext4_mb_new_inode_pa() due to overflow When we calculate the end position of ext4_free_extent, this position may be exactly where ext4_lblk_t (i.e. uint) overflows. For example, if ac_g_ex.fe_logical is 4294965248 and ac_orig_goal_len is 2048, then the computed end is 0x100000000, which is 0. If ac->ac_o_ex.fe_logical is not the first case of adjusting the best extent, that is, new_bex_end > 0, the following BUG_ON will be triggered: ========================================================= kernel BUG at fs/ext4/mballoc.c:5116! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 3 PID: 673 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G E 6.5.0-rc1+ #279 RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_new_inode_pa+0xc5/0x430 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_mb_use_best_found+0x203/0x2f0 ext4_mb_try_best_found+0x163/0x240 ext4_mb_regular_allocator+0x158/0x1550 ext4_mb_new_blocks+0x86a/0xe10 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0xb0c/0x13a0 ext4_map_blocks+0x2cd/0x8f0 ext4_iomap_begin+0x27b/0x400 iomap_iter+0x222/0x3d0 __iomap_dio_rw+0x243/0xcb0 iomap_dio_rw+0x16/0x80 ========================================================= A simple reproducer demonstrating the problem: mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sda -b 4096 100M mount /dev/sda /tmp/test fallocate -l1M /tmp/test/tmp fallocate -l10M /tmp/test/file fallocate -i -o 1M -l16777203M /tmp/test/file fsstress -d /tmp/test -l 0 -n 100000 -p 8 & sleep 10 && killall -9 fsstress rm -f /tmp/test/tmp xfs_io -c "open -ad /tmp/test/file" -c "pwrite -S 0xff 0 8192" We simply refactor the logic for adjusting the best extent by adding a temporary ext4_free_extent ex and use extent_logical_end() to avoid overflow, which also simplifies the code.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.64-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54069
Debian:13linux6.5.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54069
Debian:14linux6.5.6-1DEBIAN-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux5.15.0-100.110UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws5.15.0-1056.61UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure5.15.0-1058.66UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde5.15.0-1058.66.1UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp5.15.0-1053.61UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gke5.15.0-1052.57UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeop5.15.0-1038.44UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm5.15.0-1048.51UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotg5.15.0-1050.56UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvm5.15.0-1052.57UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency5.15.0-100.110UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia5.15.0-1046.46UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra5.15.0-1025.25UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igx5.15.0-1012.12UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle5.15.0-1053.59UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspi5.15.0-1048.51UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.14no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmp5.15.0-1030.34UBUNTU-CVE-2023-54069

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 8659c5f4ffaacbe932849b98462c3d635b4eacea – before 83ecffd40c65844a73c2e93d7c841455786605acfc7237e191b99f88e859316fab2b06c2c26c8344 – before 58fe961c606c446f5612f6897827b1cac42c2e89613f6cde5ebb005a37fda117cdda7b4126170c13 – before f2c3a3aa6f11ad9878dbc3a067b0633e07b586c19d4430b7f862ce8835ca4e054b6916d15c8e0862 – before fcefddf3a151b2c416b20120c06bb1ba9ad676fb93cdf49f6eca5e23f6546b8f28457b2e6a6961d9 – before b7e9ec38b6a0beb5a49cd1e76be0a9a07c218e9093cdf49f6eca5e23f6546b8f28457b2e6a6961d9 – before bc056e7163ac7db945366de219745cf94f32a3e646772ab99409cc72241227dd8f5295f358233fda25a60b4533268477920faaeebd99e7e69c0735cd
Linux Linux 6.4

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