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CVE-2023-53008

Updated on 27 Mar 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: fix potential memory leaks in session setup

Make sure to free cifs_ses::auth_key.response before allocating it as we might end up leaking memory in reconnect or mounting.

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
Affected packages:
kernel @ 2.6.32 (+15 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: fix potential memory leaks in session setup

Make sure to free cifs_ses::auth_key.response before allocating it as we might end up leaking memory in reconnect or mounting.

Fixes