Linux Kernel up to 5.15.112/6.1.29/6.3.3 f2fs_dev_is_readonly denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.112/6.1.29/6.3.3. Affected by this issue is the function f2fs_dev_is_readonly. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2023-54182. No exploit exists. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.15.112/6.1.29/6.3.3. Affected is the function f2fs_dev_is_readonly. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to check readonly condition correctly With below case, it can mount multi-device image w/ rw option, however one of secondary device is set as ro, later update will cause panic, so let's introduce f2fs_dev_is_readonly(), and check multi-devices rw status in f2fs_remount() w/ it in order to avoid such inconsistent mount status. mkfs.f2fs -c /dev/zram1 /dev/zram0 -f blockdev --setro /dev/zram1 mount -t f2fs dev/zram0 /mnt/f2fs mount: /mnt/f2fs: WARNING: source write-protected, mounted read-only. mount -t f2fs -o remount,rw mnt/f2fs dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/f2fs/file bs=1M count=8192 kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inline.c:258! RIP: 0010:f2fs_write_inline_data+0x23e/0x2d0 [f2fs] Call Trace: f2fs_write_single_data_page+0x26b/0x9f0 [f2fs] f2fs_write_cache_pages+0x389/0xa60 [f2fs] __f2fs_write_data_pages+0x26b/0x2d0 [f2fs] f2fs_write_data_pages+0x2e/0x40 [f2fs] do_writepages+0xd3/0x1b0 __writeback_single_inode+0x5b/0x420 writeback_sb_inodes+0x236/0x5a0 __writeback_inodes_wb+0x56/0xf0 wb_writeback+0x2a3/0x490 wb_do_writeback+0x2b2/0x330 wb_workfn+0x6a/0x260 process_one_work+0x270/0x5e0 worker_thread+0x52/0x3e0 kthread+0xf4/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-54182 since 12/30/2025. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 280730 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-54182), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.15.113, 6.1.30 or 6.3.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch e2759a59a4cc96af712084e9db7065c858c4fe9f/e05d63f8b48aad4613bd582c945bee41e2dd7255/da8c535b28696017e5d1532d12ea78e836432d9e/d78dfefcde9d311284434560d69c0478c55a657e is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (280730) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2941). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• IBM Power Hardware Management Console
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source Linux Kernel
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM DataPower Gateway

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 5.15.112
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.1.8
• 6.1.9
• 6.1.10
• 6.1.11
• 6.1.12
• 6.1.13
• 6.1.14
• 6.1.15
• 6.1.16
• 6.1.17
• 6.1.18
• 6.1.19
• 6.1.20
• 6.1.21
• 6.1.22
• 6.1.23
• 6.1.24
• 6.1.25
• 6.1.26
• 6.1.27
• 6.1.28
• 6.1.29
• 6.3.0
• 6.3.1
• 6.3.2
• 6.3.3

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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