CVE-2023-53377 (GCVE-0-2023-53377)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-18 13:33
Modified
2026-08-05 09:13
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: prevent use-after-free by freeing the cfile later In smb2_compound_op we have a possible use-after-free which can cause hard to debug problems later on. This was revealed during stress testing with KASAN enabled kernel. Fixing it by moving the cfile free call to a few lines below, after the usage.
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Linux Linux Version: 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585
Version: 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585
Version: 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585
Version: 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585
Version: 2d046892a493d9760c35fdaefc3017f27f91b621
Version: 6.0.16   ≤
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