# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53331"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-16T16:12:06.788Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:13:32.268Z"
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-2023-53331"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53331.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53331"
title: "pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init\n\nAfter commit 30696378f68a (\"pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as\nvalid\"), initialization would assume a prz was valid after seeing that\nthe buffer_size is zero (regardless of the buffer start position). This\nunchecked start value means it could be outside the bounds of the buffer,\nleading to future access panics when written to:\n\n sysdump_panic_event+0x3b4/0x5b8\n atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x90\n panic+0x1c8/0x42c\n die+0x29c/0x2a8\n die_kernel_fault+0x68/0x78\n __do_kernel_fault+0x1c4/0x1e0\n do_bad_area+0x40/0x100\n do_translation_fault+0x68/0x80\n do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf8\n el1_da+0x1c/0xc0\n __raw_writeb+0x38/0x174\n __memcpy_toio+0x40/0xac\n persistent_ram_update+0x44/0x12c\n persistent_ram_write+0x1a8/0x1b8\n ramoops_pstore_write+0x198/0x1e8\n pstore_console_write+0x94/0xe0\n ...\n\nTo avoid this, also check if the prz start is 0 during the initialization\nphase. If not, the next prz sanity check case will discover it (start \u003e\nsize) and zap the buffer back to a sane state.\n\n[kees: update commit log with backtrace and clarifications]"
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