Bug 2400735 (CVE-2023-53506) - CVE-2023-53506 kernel: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents
Summary: CVE-2023-53506 kernel: udf: Do not bother merging very long extents
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53506
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-01 12:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-25 21:15 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 12:04:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

udf: Do not bother merging very long extents

When merging very long extents we try to push as much length as possible
to the first extent. However this is unnecessarily complicated and not
really worth the trouble. Furthermore there was a bug in the logic
resulting in corrupting extents in the file as syzbot reproducer shows.
So just don't bother with the merging of extents that are too long
together.


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