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CVE-2023-53377

cifs: prevent use-after-free by freeing the cfile later PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585 before 4fe07d55a5461e66a55fbefb57f85ff0facea32b; affected 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585 before b6353518ef8180816e863aa23b06456f395404d6; affected 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585 before d017880782cf71f8820ee4a2002843893176501d; affected 76894f3e2f71177747b8b4763fb180e800279585 before 33f736187d08f6bc822117629f263b97d3df4165; affected 2d046892a493d9760c35fdaefc3017f27f91b621; affected 6.0.16 before 6.1
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.1; unaffected 0 before 6.1; unaffected 6.1.39 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.3.13 through 6.3.*; unaffected 6.4.4 through 6.4.*; unaffected 6.5 through *

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