Security Advisory

CVE-2023-54280

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-30 12:23:22
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:35:10
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc Protect access of TCP_Server_Info::hostname when building the ipc tree name as it might get freed in cifsd thread and thus causing an use-after-free bug in __tree_connect_dfs_target(). Also, while at it, update status of IPC tcon on success and then avoid any extra tree connects.