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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53294"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T08:11:26.926Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:42:09.734Z"
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-2023-53294"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53294.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53294"
title: "fs/ntfs3: Fix null-ptr-deref on inode-\u003ei_op in ntfs_lookup()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Fix null-ptr-deref on inode-\u003ei_op in ntfs_lookup()\n\nSyzbot reported a null-ptr-deref bug:\n\nntfs3: loop0: Different NTFS' sector size (1024) and media sector size\n(512)\nntfs3: loop0: Mark volume as dirty due to NTFS errors\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]\nRIP: 0010:d_flags_for_inode fs/dcache.c:1980 [inline]\nRIP: 0010:__d_add+0x5ce/0x800 fs/dcache.c:2796\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n d_splice_alias+0x122/0x3b0 fs/dcache.c:3191\n lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline]\n open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]\n path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3688\n do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3718\n do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310\n do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]\n __do_sys_open fs/open.c:1334 [inline]\n __se_sys_open fs/open.c:1330 [inline]\n __x64_sys_open+0x221/0x270 fs/open.c:1330\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd\n\nIf the MFT record of ntfs inode is not a base record, inode-\u003ei_op can be\nNULL. And a null-ptr-deref may happen:\n\nntfs_lookup()\n    dir_search_u() # inode-\u003ei_op is set to NULL\n    d_splice_alias()\n        __d_add()\n            d_flags_for_inode() # inode-\u003ei_op-\u003eget_link null-ptr-deref\n\nFix this by adding a Check on inode-\u003ei_op before calling the\nd_splice_alias() function."
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