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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 2, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53055

CVE-2023-53055

Description

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

fscrypt: destroy keyring after security_sb_delete()

fscrypt_destroy_keyring() must be called after all potentially-encrypted inodes were evicted; otherwise it cannot safely destroy the keyring. Since inodes that are in-use by the Landlock LSM don't get evicted until security_sb_delete(), this means that fscrypt_destroy_keyring() must be called *after* security_sb_delete().

This fixes a WARN_ON followed by a NULL dereference, only possible if Landlock was being used on encrypted files.

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Affected products

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  • Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy6 versions
    (expand)+ 5 more
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.1
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=5.10.154,<5.11
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.3:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • osv-coords
    Range: < 5.15.105

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