# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52501"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-03-02T21:52:16.556Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:28:32.397Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52501"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52501.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52501"
title: "ring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past \"commit\""
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nring-buffer: Do not attempt to read past \"commit\"\n\nWhen iterating over the ring buffer while the ring buffer is active, the\nwriter can corrupt the reader. There's barriers to help detect this and\nhandle it, but that code missed the case where the last event was at the\nvery end of the page and has only 4 bytes left.\n\nThe checks to detect the corruption by the writer to reads needs to see the\nlength of the event. If the length in the first 4 bytes is zero then the\nlength is stored in the second 4 bytes. But if the writer is in the process\nof updating that code, there's a small window where the length in the first\n4 bytes could be zero even though the length is only 4 bytes. That will\ncause rb_event_length() to read the next 4 bytes which could happen to be off the\nallocated page.\n\nTo protect against this, fail immediately if the next event pointer is\nless than 8 bytes from the end of the commit (last byte of data), as all\nevents must be a minimum of 8 bytes anyway."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"785888c544e0433f601df18ff98a3215b380b9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cee5151c5410e868826b8afecfb356f3799ebea3"},{"version":"785888c544e0433f601df18ff98a3215b380b9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"344f2f3e61a90f0150c754796ec9a17fcaeec03d"},{"version":"785888c544e0433f601df18ff98a3215b380b9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b08a4938229dbb530a35c41b83002a1457c6ff49"},{"version":"785888c544e0433f601df18ff98a3215b380b9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"75fc9e99b3a71006720ad1e029db11a4b5c32d4a"},{"version":"785888c544e0433f601df18ff98a3215b380b9c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"95a404bd60af6c4d9d8db01ad14fe8957ece31ca"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"5.10.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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