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CVE-2023-53786

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Published Date December 9, 2025
Last Modified December 9, 2025
CVSS Vector Not Available

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference:
dmsetup create flakey --table \
"0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512"

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.