fkie_cve-2023-53377
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-09-18 14:15
Modified
2025-09-19 16:00
Severity ?
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.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33f736187d08f6bc822117629f263b97d3df4165
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4fe07d55a5461e66a55fbefb57f85ff0facea32b
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6353518ef8180816e863aa23b06456f395404d6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d017880782cf71f8820ee4a2002843893176501d
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  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: prevent use-after-free by freeing the cfile later\n\nIn smb2_compound_op we have a possible use-after-free\nwhich can cause hard to debug problems later on.\n\nThis was revealed during stress testing with KASAN enabled\nkernel. Fixing it by moving the cfile free call to\na few lines below, after the usage."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2023-53377",
  "lastModified": "2025-09-19T16:00:27.847",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-09-18T14:15:40.590",
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  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
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