CVE-2023-54130

hfs/hfsplus: avoid WARN_ON() for sanity check, use proper error handling

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Dec 24, 2025
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Dec 24, 2025

Description

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

hfs/hfsplus: avoid WARN_ON() for sanity check, use proper error handling

Commit 55d1cbbbb29e ("hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check") fixed a build warning by turning a comment into a WARN_ON(), but it turns out that syzbot then complains because it can trigger said warning with a corrupted hfs image.

The warning actually does warn about a bad situation, but we are much better off just handling it as the error it is. So rather than warn about us doing bad things, stop doing the bad things and return -EIO.

While at it, also fix a memory leak that was introduced by an earlier fix for a similar syzbot warning situation, and add a check for one case that historically wasn't handled at all (ie neither comment nor subsequent WARN_ON).

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	c886c10a6eddb99923b315f42bf63f448883ef9a to before cc2164ada548addfa8ee215196661c3afe0c5154Affected 2344f17c0a89c181ab1a9fef57fd8c3bddfd6e30 to before 82725be426bce0a425cc5e26fbad61ffd29cff03Affected 90103ccb6e60aa4efe48993d23d6a528472f2233 to before da23752d9660ba7a8ca6c5768fd8776f67f59ee7Affected 4fd3a11804c8877ff11fec59c5c53f1635331e3e to before be01f35efa876eb81cebab2cb0add068b7280ef4Affected 48d9e2e6de01ed35e965eb549758a837c07b601d to before f10defb0be6ac42fb6a97b45920d32da6bd6fde8Affected 55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before 90e019006644dad35862cb4aa270f561b0732066Affected 55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before 45917be9f0af339a45b4619f31c902d37b8aed59Affected 55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before cb7a95af78d29442b8294683eca4897544b8ef46Affected 8c40f2dbae603ef0bd21e87c63f54ec59fd88256Affected 367296925c7625c3969d2a78d7a3e1dee161beb5Affected 4.9.337 to before 4.10Affected
LinuxLinux	5.16Affected before 5.16Not affected 6.0.19 through 6.0.Not affected 6.1.5 through 6.1.Not affected 6.2 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

c886c10a6eddb99923b315f42bf63f448883ef9a to before cc2164ada548addfa8ee215196661c3afe0c5154Affected
2344f17c0a89c181ab1a9fef57fd8c3bddfd6e30 to before 82725be426bce0a425cc5e26fbad61ffd29cff03Affected
90103ccb6e60aa4efe48993d23d6a528472f2233 to before da23752d9660ba7a8ca6c5768fd8776f67f59ee7Affected
4fd3a11804c8877ff11fec59c5c53f1635331e3e to before be01f35efa876eb81cebab2cb0add068b7280ef4Affected
48d9e2e6de01ed35e965eb549758a837c07b601d to before f10defb0be6ac42fb6a97b45920d32da6bd6fde8Affected
55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before 90e019006644dad35862cb4aa270f561b0732066Affected
55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before 45917be9f0af339a45b4619f31c902d37b8aed59Affected
55d1cbbbb29e6656c662ee8f73ba1fc4777532eb to before cb7a95af78d29442b8294683eca4897544b8ef46Affected
8c40f2dbae603ef0bd21e87c63f54ec59fd88256Affected
367296925c7625c3969d2a78d7a3e1dee161beb5Affected
4.9.337 to before 4.10Affected

LinuxLinux

5.16Affected
before 5.16Not affected
6.0.19 through 6.0.*Not affected
6.1.5 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.2 and laterNot affected

References

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