CVE-2023-53751

Updated on 08 Dec 2025

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS score
8.6

Overview

About vulnerability

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

cifs: fix potential use-after-free bugs in TCP_Server_Info::hostname

TCP_Server_Info::hostname may be updated once or many times during reconnect, so protect its access outside reconnect path as well and then prevent any potential use-after-free bugs.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 4.18.0 (+3 more)

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

cifs: fix potential use-after-free bugs in TCP_Server_Info::hostname

TCP_Server_Info::hostname may be updated once or many times during reconnect, so protect its access outside reconnect path as well and then prevent any potential use-after-free bugs.

Fixes