fs/ntfs3: Add length check in indx_get_root

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  "id": "b96598c296971c8830f4fe530acad764062d3e2ee92e0191ccc5905df3531852",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53194",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "fs/ntfs3: Add length check in indx_get_root",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Add length check in indx_get_root This adds a length check to guarantee the retrieved index root is legit. [ 162.459513] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hdr_find_e.isra.0+0x10c/0x320 [ 162.460176] Read of size 2 at addr ffff8880037bca99 by task mount/243 [ 162.460851] [ 162.461252] CPU: 0 PID: 243 Comm: mount Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7 #42 [ 162.461744] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 162.462609] Call Trace: [ 162.462954] [ 162.463276] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63 [ 162.463822] print_report.cold+0xf5/0x689 [ 162.464608] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3a/0x60 [ 162.465766] ? hdr_find_e.isra.0+0x10c/0x320 [ 162.466975] kasan_report+0xa7/0x130 [ 162.467506] ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0xc0/0xf0 [ 162.467998] ? hdr_find_e.isra.0+0x10c/0x320 [ 162.468536] __asan_load2+0x68/0x90 [ 162.468923] hdr_find_e.isra.0+0x10c/0x320 [ 162.469282] ? cmp_uints+0xe0/0xe0 [ 162.469557] ? cmp_sdh+0x90/0x90 [ 162.469864] ? ni_find_attr+0x214/0x300 [ 162.470217] ? ni_load_mi+0x80/0x80 [ 162.470479] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd [ 162.470931] ? ntfs_bread_run+0x190/0x190 [ 162.471307] ? indx_get_root+0xe4/0x190 [ 162.471556] ? indx_get_root+0x140/0x190 [ 162.471833] ? indx_init+0x1e0/0x1e0 [ 162.472069] ? fnd_clear+0x115/0x140 [ 162.472363] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x100/0x100 [ 162.472731] indx_find+0x184/0x470 [ 162.473461] ? sysvec_apic_timer",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:44.183591884Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/53xxx/CVE-2023-53194.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53194",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 511635,
  "published_at": "2025-09-15T14:06:41.076+00:00"
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