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Tracker / CVE-2023-53377

CVE-2023-53377

High 7.8

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 6.0.16 → 6.1.39
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.3.13
linux linux_kernel · 6.4 → 6.4.4

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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