CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Linux.
CVE
CVE-2023-53457
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.15%
Linux
Original NVD Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning with appropiate error code.
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