A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the gfs2 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs on corrupt gfs2 file systems when the evict code tries to reference the journal descriptor structure after it has been freed and set to NULL. A privileged local user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic.
CVE-2023-3212
Score 4.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2023-06-23. NVD baseline CVSS 4.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.4
- EG Score
- 4.4(medium)
- EG Risk
- 24(Track)EG Risk 24/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity44% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 17.9%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 23, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (14)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214348
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/504a10d9e46bc37b23d0a1ae2f28973c8516e636
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html
- secalert@redhathttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0005/
- secalert@redhathttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5448
- secalert@redhathttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214348
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/504a10d9e46bc37b23d0a1ae2f28973c8516e636
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0005/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5448
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-3212(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(17)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(16)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-32122023-07-05
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the gfs2 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs on corrupt gfs2 file systems when the evict code tries to reference the journal descriptor structure after it has been freed and set to NULL. A privileged local user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic.
- Red HatRHSA-2023:6901LOW2023-04-28
RHSA-2023:6901 — Low
- UbuntuUSN-6231-1LOW
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6339-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6339-2LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6339-3LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6339-4LOW
Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6350-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6351-1LOW
Linux kernel (GKE) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6388-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6396-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6396-2LOW
Linux kernel (KVM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6396-3LOW
Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6412-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6417-1LOW
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6466-1LOW
Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
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