CVE-2023-53494 (GCVE-0-2023-53494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-01 11:45
Modified
2025-10-01 11:45
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: xts - Handle EBUSY correctly As it is xts only handles the special return value of EINPROGRESS, which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the request. However, as the caller of xts may specify MAY_BACKLOG, we also need to expect EBUSY and treat it in the same way. Otherwise backlogged requests will trigger a use-after-free.
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Linux Linux Version: 8083b1bf8163e7ae7d8c90f221106d96450b8aa8
Version: 8083b1bf8163e7ae7d8c90f221106d96450b8aa8
Version: 8083b1bf8163e7ae7d8c90f221106d96450b8aa8
Version: 8083b1bf8163e7ae7d8c90f221106d96450b8aa8
Version: 8083b1bf8163e7ae7d8c90f221106d96450b8aa8
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