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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-53584" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:43:59.835Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:47:53.655Z" 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-2023-53584" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53584.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53584" title: "ubifs: ubifs_releasepage: Remove ubifs_assert(0) to valid this process" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nubifs: ubifs_releasepage: Remove ubifs_assert(0) to valid this process\n\nThere are two states for ubifs writing pages:\n1. Dirty, Private\n2. Not Dirty, Not Private\n\nThe normal process cannot go to ubifs_releasepage() which means there\nexists pages being private but not dirty. Reproducer[1] shows that it\ncould occur (which maybe related to [2]) with following process:\n\n PA PB PC\nlock(page)[PA]\nubifs_write_end\n attach_page_private // set Private\n __set_page_dirty_nobuffers // set Dirty\nunlock(page)\n\nwrite_cache_pages[PA]\n lock(page)\n clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)\t// clear Dirty\n ubifs_writepage\n\n do_truncation[PB]\n\t\t\t truncate_setsize\n\t\t\t i_size_write(inode, newsize) // newsize = 0\n\n i_size = i_size_read(inode)\t// i_size = 0\n end_index = i_size \u003e\u003e PAGE_SHIFT\n if (page-\u003eindex \u003e end_index)\n goto out // jump\nout:\nunlock(page) // Private, Not Dirty\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tgeneric_fadvise[PC]\n\t\t\t\t\t\t lock(page)\n\t\t\t\t\t\t invalidate_inode_page\n\t\t\t\t\t\t try_to_release_page\n\t\t\t\t\t\t ubifs_releasepage\n\t\t\t\t\t\t ubifs_assert(c, 0)\n\t\t // bad assertion!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t unlock(page)\n\t\t\t truncate_pagecache[PB]\n\nThen we may get following assertion failed:\n UBIFS error (ubi0:0 pid 1683): ubifs_assert_failed [ubifs]:\n UBIFS assert failed: 0, in fs/ubifs/file.c:1513\n UBIFS warning (ubi0:0 pid 1683): ubifs_ro_mode [ubifs]:\n switched to read-only mode, error -22\n CPU: 2 PID: 1683 Comm: aa Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5-00184-g0bca5994cacc-dirty #308\n Call Trace:\n dump_stack+0x13/0x1b\n ubifs_ro_mode+0x54/0x60 [ubifs]\n ubifs_assert_failed+0x4b/0x80 [ubifs]\n ubifs_releasepage+0x67/0x1d0 [ubifs]\n try_to_release_page+0x57/0xe0\n invalidate_inode_page+0xfb/0x130\n __invalidate_mapping_pages+0xb9/0x280\n invalidate_mapping_pagevec+0x12/0x20\n generic_fadvise+0x303/0x3c0\n ksys_fadvise64_64+0x4c/0xb0\n\n[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215373\n[2] https://linux-mtd.infradead.narkive.com/NQoBeT1u/patch-rfc-ubifs-fix-assert-failed-in-ubifs-set-page-dirty" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7750be5d3e18500b454714677463b500a0b8b0d8"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bd188ff1c8a1935c93a1e3cacf3be62667fdf762"},{"version":"1e51764a3c2ac05a23a22b2a95ddee4d9bffb16d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66f4742e93523ab2f062d9d9828b3e590bc61536"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.27","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.27"},{"version":"6.1.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.5","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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