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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2023-54313" idYear: 2023 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:23:44.484Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:59:33.173Z" 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-2023-54313" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54313.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54313" title: "ovl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novl: fix null pointer dereference in ovl_get_acl_rcu()\n\nFollowing process:\n P1 P2\n path_openat\n link_path_walk\n may_lookup\n inode_permission(rcu)\n ovl_permission\n acl_permission_check\n check_acl\n get_cached_acl_rcu\n\t ovl_get_inode_acl\n\t realinode = ovl_inode_real(ovl_inode)\n\t drop_cache\n\t\t __dentry_kill(ovl_dentry)\n\t\t\t\tiput(ovl_inode)\n\t\t ovl_destroy_inode(ovl_inode)\n\t\t dput(oi-\u003e__upperdentry)\n\t\t dentry_kill(upperdentry)\n\t\t dentry_unlink_inode\n\t\t\t\t upperdentry-\u003ed_inode = NULL\n\t ovl_inode_upper\n\t upperdentry = ovl_i_dentry_upper(ovl_inode)\n\t d_inode(upperdentry) // returns NULL\n\t IS_POSIXACL(realinode) // NULL pointer dereference\n, will trigger an null pointer dereference at realinode:\n [ 205.472797] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:\n 0000000000000028\n [ 205.476701] CPU: 2 PID: 2713 Comm: ls Not tainted\n 6.3.0-12064-g2edfa098e750-dirty #1216\n [ 205.478754] RIP: 0010:do_ovl_get_acl+0x5d/0x300\n [ 205.489584] Call Trace:\n [ 205.489812] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 205.490014] ovl_get_inode_acl+0x26/0x30\n [ 205.490466] get_cached_acl_rcu+0x61/0xa0\n [ 205.490908] generic_permission+0x1bf/0x4e0\n [ 205.491447] ovl_permission+0x79/0x1b0\n [ 205.491917] inode_permission+0x15e/0x2c0\n [ 205.492425] link_path_walk+0x115/0x550\n [ 205.493311] path_lookupat.isra.0+0xb2/0x200\n [ 205.493803] filename_lookup+0xda/0x240\n [ 205.495747] vfs_fstatat+0x7b/0xb0\n\nFetch a reproducer in [Link].\n\nUse the helper ovl_i_path_realinode() to get realinode and then do\nnon-nullptr checking." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d97481c7b2739a704848bb3c01f224dc71bdf78e"},{"version":"332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4a5fb1ae5d3f02d3227afde2b9339994389463d"},{"version":"332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d536af163c53ce9f9bcfe87d2e9946f06f1a7ea4"},{"version":"332f606b32b6291a944c8cf23b91f53a6e676525","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4e19e595cc2e76a8a58413eb19d3d9c51328b53"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","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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