# CVE-2023-53165: udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-09-15 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.6

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: udf: Fix uninitialized array access for some pathnames For filenames that begin with . and are between 2 and 5 characters long, UDF charset conversion code would read uninitialized memory in the output buffer. The only practical impact is that the name may be prepended a "unification hash" when it is not actually needed but still it is good to fix this.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/008ae78d1e12efa904dc819b1ec83e2bca6b2c56
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b37f998d357102e8eb0f8eeb33f03fff22e49cbf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f1368af47acf4d0b2a5fb0d2c0d6919d2234b6d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4503f6fc95d6dee85fb2c54785848799e192c51c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985f9666698960dfc87a106d6314203fa90fda75
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6824149809395dfbb5bc36bc7057cc3cb84e56d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d50988da0db167aed6f38685145cb5cd526c4f8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/028f6055c912588e6f72722d89c30b401bbcf013

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