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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53172"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-15T14:04:06.075Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:39:39.871Z"
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-2023-53172"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53172.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53172"
title: "fsverity: reject FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY on mode 3 fds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfsverity: reject FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY on mode 3 fds\n\nCommit 56124d6c87fd (\"fsverity: support enabling with tree block size \u003c\nPAGE_SIZE\") changed FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY to use __kernel_read() to read\nthe file's data, instead of direct pagecache accesses.\n\nAn unintended consequence of this is that the\n'WARN_ON_ONCE(!(file-\u003ef_mode & FMODE_READ))' in __kernel_read() became\nreachable by fuzz tests.  This happens if FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY is called\non a fd opened with access mode 3, which means \"ioctl access only\".\n\nArguably, FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY should work on ioctl-only fds.  But\nioctl-only fds are a weird Linux extension that is rarely used and that\nfew people even know about.  (The documentation for FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY\neven specifically says it requires O_RDONLY.)  It's probably not\nworthwhile to make the ioctl internally open a new fd just to handle\nthis case.  Thus, just reject the ioctl on such fds for now."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"56124d6c87fd749477425110d2564166621a89c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"85c039cff3c359967cafe90443c02321e950b216"},{"version":"56124d6c87fd749477425110d2564166621a89c4","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"04839139213cf60d4c5fc792214a08830e294ff8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.3.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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