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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-53377

CVE-2023-53377

Description

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 products

161

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