CVE-2023-53165
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.5 · CWE-908
5.5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames For filenames that begin with . and are between 2 and 5 characters long, UDF charset conversion code would read uninitialized memory in the output buffer. The only practical impact is that the name may be prepended a "unification hash" when it is not actually needed but still it is good to fix this.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredLow
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/008ae78d1e12efa904dc819b1ec83e2bca6b2c56 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/008ae78d1e12efa904dc819b1ec83e2bca6b2c56Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/028f6055c912588e6f72722d89c30b401bbcf013Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f1368af47acf4d0b2a5fb0d2c0d6919d2234b6dPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4503f6fc95d6dee85fb2c54785848799e192c51cPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d50988da0db167aed6f38685145cb5cd526c4f8Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985f9666698960dfc87a106d6314203fa90fda75Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6824149809395dfbb5bc36bc7057cc3cb84e56dPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37f998d357102e8eb0f8eeb33f03fff22e49cbfPatch