Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-53101

"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - ext4: zero idisksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4IOCSWAPBOOT inode will initialize it,...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2025-2909)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.311-233.529. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2909 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookupre...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2025-2892)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.311-233.529. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2892 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ftrace: Fix invalid address access in lookupre...

BELL-CVE-2023-53101

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CVE-2023-53101

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: zero idisksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4IOCSWAPBOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the isize to 0. However, if the "never before used"...

CVE-2023-53101

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: zero idisksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4IOCSWAPBOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the isize to 0. However, if the "never before used"...

CVE-2023-53101 ext4: zero i_disksize when initializing the bootloader inode

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: zero idisksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4IOCSWAPBOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the isize to 0. However, if the "never before used"...

CVE-2023-53101

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ext4: zero idisksize when initializing the bootloader inode If the boot loader inode has never been used before, the EXT4IOCSWAPBOOT inode will initialize it, including setting the isize to 0. However, if the "never before used"...

CVE-2023-53101

CVE-2023-53101 affects the Linux kernel ext4 bootloader inode handling. The issue arises when EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT initializes an inode with a non-zero i_size, causing i_disksize to remain non-zero and creating an i_size vs i_disksize inconsistency that can trigger a kernel warning (as shown in the...