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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53265" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:06:55.695Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:41:34.667Z" 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-2023-53265" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53265.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53265" title: "ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size \u003c= alloc, size" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size \u003c= alloc, size\n\nEnsure that the VID header offset + VID header size does not exceed\nthe allocated area to avoid slab OOB.\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197\nRead of size 4 at addr ffff88802bb36f00 by task syz-executor136/1555\n\nCPU: 2 PID: 1555 Comm: syz-executor136 Tainted: G W\n6.0.0-1868 #1\nHardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29\n04/01/2014\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n dump_stack_lvl+0x85/0xad lib/dump_stack.c:106\n print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]\n print_report.cold.13+0xb6/0x6bb mm/kasan/report.c:433\n kasan_report+0xa7/0x11b mm/kasan/report.c:495\n crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]\n crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]\n crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197\n ubi_io_write_vid_hdr+0x1b7/0x472 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:1067\n create_vtbl+0x4d5/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:317\n create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]\n ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812\n ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601\n ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965\n ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0\nRIP: 0033:0x7f96d5cf753d\nCode:\nRSP: 002b:00007fffd72206f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f96d5cf753d\nRDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000040186f40 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 0000000000400cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400be0\nR13: 00007fffd72207e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 1555:\n kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x3d mm/kasan/common.c:38\n kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]\n set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]\n ____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline]\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xa3 mm/kasan/common.c:525\n kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]\n __kmalloc+0x138/0x257 mm/slub.c:4429\n kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:605 [inline]\n ubi_alloc_vid_buf drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:1093 [inline]\n create_vtbl+0xcc/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:295\n create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]\n ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812\n ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601\n ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965\n ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bb36e00\n which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n 256-byte region [ffff88802bb36e00, ffff88802bb36f00)\n\nThe buggy address belongs to the physical page:\npage:00000000ea4d1263 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000\nindex:0x0 pfn:0x2bb36\nhead:00000000ea4d1263 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0\nflags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\nraw: 000fffffc0010200 ffffea000066c300 dead000000000003 ffff888100042b40\nraw: 0000000000000000 00000000001\n---truncated---" affected: 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