Security Advisory

CVE-2023-53377

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-09-18 13:33:23

Last updated 2026-05-23 15:28:39

Assigner Linux

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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