# CVE-2023-54132: erofs: stop parsing non-compact HEAD index if clusterofs is invalid

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-12-24 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.19

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: erofs: stop parsing non-compact HEAD index if clusterofs is invalid Syzbot generated a crafted image [1] with a non-compact HEAD index of clusterofs 33024 while valid numbers should be 0 ~ lclustersize-1, which causes the following unexpected behavior as below: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffff52101a3fff9 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 23ffed067 P4D 23ffed067 PUD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN CPU: 1 PID: 4398 Comm: kworker/u5:1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc6-syzkaller-g09a9639e56c0 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/30/2023 Workqueue: erofs_worker z_erofs_decompressqueue_work RIP: 0010:z_erofs_decompress_queue+0xb7e/0x2b40 ... Call Trace: <TASK> z_erofs_decompressqueue_work+0x99/0xe0 process_one_work+0x8f6/0x1170 worker_thread+0xa63/0x1210 kthread+0x270/0x300 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Note that normal images or images using compact indexes are not impacted. Let's fix this now. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/000000000000ec75b005ee97fbaa@google.com

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/880c79bdb002b9d5b6940e52c2ad3829c2178207
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a4579cd6e4936de107c82499c3c9ee11b63401e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/060fecf1114ff9fcfe87953fe8c4fc5048777160
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ee7a86e28ce9ead7112286c388df8d254c373c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01b2894928affa3339d355608713cf3db8360b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96a845419b3722869f09883319de4d55c44d9aef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc4efd3dd2ac9f89143e5d881609747ecff04164

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