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🛡️ CVE-2023-54280 — kernel

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc

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

cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc

Protect access of TCP_Server_Info::hostname when building the ipc tree

name as it might get freed in cifsd thread and thus causing an

use-after-free bug in __tree_connect_dfs_target(). Also, while at it,

update status of IPC tcon on success and then avoid any extra tree

connects.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2023-54280 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.3.0 up to 6.3.2)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 30 December 2025 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2023-54280 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Critical
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-12-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.3.0 6.3.2
unknown — —

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