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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 9, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2023-53786

CVE-2023-53786

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dm flakey: fix a crash with invalid table line

This command will crash with NULL pointer dereference: dmsetup create flakey --table \ "0 blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0 flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 2 corrupt_bio_byte 512"

Fix the crash by checking if arg_name is non-NULL before comparing it.

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