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CVE-2023-52591

high

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change The VFS will not be…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change The VFS will not be locking moved directory if its parent does not change. Change reiserfs rename code to avoid touching renamed directory if its parent does not change as without locking that can corrupt the filesystem.

CVSS
7.8
7.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2024-03-06 07:15
Modified: 2026-10-30 13:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel <6.6.16, ≥6.7 <6.7.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e1361cb91dc1325834da95d2ab532959d2debc
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49db9b1b86a82448dfaf3fcfefcf678dee56c8ed
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c04c162f82ac403917780eb6d1654694455d4e7c
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17e1361cb91dc1325834da95d2ab532959d2debc
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49db9b1b86a82448dfaf3fcfefcf678dee56c8ed
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c04c162f82ac403917780eb6d1654694455d4e7c

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-03 07:33 UTC · record ↗

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