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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53101" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:43.804Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:38:32.982Z" 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-2023-53101" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53101.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53101" title: "ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\next4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode\n\nIf the boot loader inode has never been used before, the\nEXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the\ni_size to 0. However, if the \"never before used\" boot loader has a\nnon-zero i_size, then i_disksize will be non-zero, and the\ninconsistency between i_size and i_disksize can trigger a kernel\nwarning:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2580 at fs/ext4/file.c:319\n CPU: 0 PID: 2580 Comm: bb Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1-00004-g703695902cfa\n RIP: 0010:ext4_file_write_iter+0xbc7/0xd10\n Call Trace:\n vfs_write+0x3b1/0x5c0\n ksys_write+0x77/0x160\n __x64_sys_write+0x22/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x39/0x80\n\nReproducer:\n 1. create corrupted image and mount it:\n mke2fs -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img 200\n debugfs -wR \"sif \u003c5\u003e size 25700\" /tmp/foo.img\n mount -t ext4 /tmp/foo.img /mnt\n cd /mnt\n echo 123 \u003e file\n 2. Run the reproducer program:\n posix_memalign(&buf, 1024, 1024)\n fd = open(\"file\", O_RDWR | O_DIRECT);\n ioctl(fd, EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT);\n write(fd, buf, 1024);\n\nFix this by setting i_disksize as well as i_size to zero when\ninitiaizing the boot loader inode." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6c1447e483c05dbcfb3ff77ac04237a82070b8c"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59eee0cdf8c036f554add97a4da7c06d7a9ff34a"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d8a6c9a6415999fee1259ccf1796480c026b7d6"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f00c476da8fe7c4c34ea16abb55d74127120413"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01a821aacc64d4b05dafd239dbc9b7856686002f"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cb27b1e76f0cc886ac09055bc41c0ab3f205167"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e9a4cc5486356158554f6ad73027d8635a48b34"},{"version":"393d1d1d76933886d5e1ce603214c9987589c6d5","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5361da1e60d54ec81346aee8e3d8baf1be0b762"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"4.14.310","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.14.*"},{"version":"4.19.278","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.103","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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