Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025
crypto: xts - Handle EBUSY correctly
CVE-2023-53494
Description
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.
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.4
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
5- git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c082514c2dedf2711c99d93c196cc4eedceb40mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c3e1d63b63dc0841d41df729297cd7c1c35808mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/912eb10b65646ffd222256c78a1c566a3dac177dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/92a07ba4f0af2cccdc2aa5ee32679c9c9714db90mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5870848879291700fe6c5257dcb48aadd10425cmitre
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