CVE-2023-52569 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-52569

btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: remove BUG() after failure to insert delayed dir index item Instead of calling BUG() when we fail to insert a delayed dir index item into the delayed node's tree, we can just release all the resources we have allocated/acquired before and return the error to the caller. This is fine because all existing call chains undo anything they have done before calling btrfs_insert_delayed_dir_index() or BUG_ON (when creating pending snapshots in the transaction commit path). So remove the BUG() call and do proper error handling. This relates to a syzbot report linked below, but does not fix it because it only prevents hitting a BUG(), it does not fix the issue where somehow we attempt to use twice the same index number for different index items.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
9b378f6ad48cfa195ed868db9123c09ee7ec5ea2, 79cf35e16dd5b8639909d4df957503b84de30406, 5441532ffc9c8c9f7cab0f8722e6d60a0b5e1259, 5.15.149, 6.4.12, 6.5, 0, 6.5.6, 6.6

Timeline

Official Publish: March 2nd, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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