# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53988"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:27.762Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:16:30.837Z"
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-2023-53988"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53988.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53988"
title: "fs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hdr_delete_de()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/ntfs3: Fix slab-out-of-bounds read in hdr_delete_de()\n\nHere is a BUG report from syzbot:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in hdr_delete_de+0xe0/0x150 fs/ntfs3/index.c:806\nRead of size 16842960 at addr ffff888079cc0600 by task syz-executor934/3631\n\nCall Trace:\n memmove+0x25/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:54\n hdr_delete_de+0xe0/0x150 fs/ntfs3/index.c:806\n indx_delete_entry+0x74f/0x3670 fs/ntfs3/index.c:2193\n ni_remove_name+0x27a/0x980 fs/ntfs3/frecord.c:2910\n ntfs_unlink_inode+0x3d4/0x720 fs/ntfs3/inode.c:1712\n ntfs_rename+0x41a/0xcb0 fs/ntfs3/namei.c:276\n\nBefore using the meta-data in struct INDEX_HDR, we need to\ncheck index header valid or not. Otherwise, the corruptedi\n(or malicious) fs image can cause out-of-bounds access which\ncould make kernel panic."
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