CVE-2023-53035: linux
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-53035 is a high (CVSS 7.1) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 12.2% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4Timeline
- 02-05-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-05-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nilfs2: fix kernel-infoleak in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy() The ioctl helper function nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy(), which exchanges a metadata array to/from user space, may copy uninitialized buffer regions to user space memory for read-only ioctl commands NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO and NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO. This can occur when the element size of the user space metadata given by the v_size member of the argument nilfs_argv structure is larger than the size of the metadata element (nilfs_suinfo structure or nilfs_cpinfo structure) on the file system side. KMSAN-enabled kernels detect this issue as follows: BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline] BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xc0/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:33 instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline] _copy_to_user+0xc0/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:33 copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:169 [inline] nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x6fa/0xc10 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:99 nilfs_ioctl_get_info fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1173 [inline] nilfs_ioctl+0x2402/0x4450 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1290 nilfs_compat_ioctl+0x1b8/0x200 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1343 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:968 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x7dd/0x1000 fs/ioctl.c:910 __ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:910 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178 do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82 Uninit was created at: __alloc_pages+0x9f6/0xe90 mm/page_alloc.c:5572 alloc_pages+0xab0/0xd80 mm/mempolicy.c:2287 __get_free_pages+0x34/0xc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5599 nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x223/0xc10 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:74 nilfs_ioctl_get_info fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1173 [inline] nilfs_ioctl+0x2402/0x4450 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1290 nilfs_compat_ioctl+0x1b8/0x200 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1343 __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:968 [inline] __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x7dd/0x1000 fs/ioctl.c:910 __ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:910 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline] __do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178 do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246 entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82 Bytes 16-127 of 3968 are uninitialized ... This eliminates the leak issue by initializing the page allocated as buffer using get_zeroed_page().
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.1HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.22%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
12%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.01 pp
From 0.22% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Ubuntu117 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-156.173 | < 5.15.0-79.86
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 5.4.0-1107.115 | < 5.15.0-1042.47
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
- linux≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < a94932381e8dae4117e9129b3c1282e18aa97b05 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 9c5034e9a0e03db8d5e9eabb176340259b5b97e4 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 8f5cbf6a8c0e19b062b829c5b7aca01468bb57f6 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < d18db946cc6a394291539e030df32324285648f7 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 5bb105cc72beb9d51bf12f5c657336d2d35bdc5d | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 5f33b042f74fc9662eba17f4cd19b07d84bbc6c5 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 8a6550b365c0ce2e65905de57dcbfe1f7d629726 | ≥ 003ff182fddde09ddfb8d079bbdb02f9d2122082, < 003587000276f81d0114b5ce773d80c119d8cb30 | 2.6.31
- linux_kernel≥ 2.6.31, < 4.14.312 | ≥ 4.15, < 4.19.280 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.240 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.177 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.105 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.22 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.2.9 | 6.3:rc1 | 6.3:rc2 | 6.3:rc3
Debian1 product
- linux< 6.1.25-1
3 vendors · 120 products