CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-53494
High (7.8) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: xts - Handle EBUSY correctly
As it is xts only handles the special return value of EINPROGRESS,
which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the
request.
However, as the caller of xts may specify MAY_BACKLOG, we also need
to expect EBUSY and treat it in the same way. Otherwise backlogged
requests will trigger a use-after-free.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c082514c2dedf2711c99d93c196cc4eedceb40
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c3e1d63b63dc0841d41df729297cd7c1c35808
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/912eb10b65646ffd222256c78a1c566a3dac177d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92a07ba4f0af2cccdc2aa5ee32679c9c9714db90
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5870848879291700fe6c5257dcb48aadd10425c