CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-53360
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFSv4.2: Rework scratch handling for READ_PLUS (again)
I found that the read code might send multiple requests using the same
nfs_pgio_header, but nfs4_proc_read_setup() is only called once. This is
how we ended up occasionally double-freeing the scratch buffer, but also
means we set a NULL pointer but non-zero length to the xdr scratch
buffer. This results in an oops the first time decoding needs to copy
something to scratch, which frequently happens when decoding READ_PLUS
hole segments.
I fix this by moving scratch handling into the pageio read code. I
provide a function to allocate scratch space for decoding read replies,
and free the scratch buffer when the nfs_pgio_header is freed.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.16)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.5 < 6.5.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/303a78052091c81e9003915c521fdca1c7e117af Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2f4cb206bd94b3f4a7bb05fcdce9525283b5681 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adac9f0ddd2b291c7ce41f549fdb27a13616cff5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae5d5672f1db711e91db6f52df5cb16ecd8f5692 Patch