CVE-2023-53711 (GCVE-0-2023-53711)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-22 13:23 – Updated: 2026-10-15 21:41
VLAI
Title
NFS: Fix a potential data corruption
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: NFS: Fix a potential data corruption We must ensure that the subrequests are joined back into the head before we can retransmit a request. If the head was not on the commit lists, because the server wrote it synchronously, we still need to add it back to the retransmission list. Add a call that mirrors the effect of nfs_cancel_remove_inode() for O_DIRECT.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-15 21:36 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: ed5d588fe47feef290f271022820e255d8371561 , < 4185605cd0f72ec8bf8b423aacd94cd5ee13bbcf (git)
Affected: ed5d588fe47feef290f271022820e255d8371561 , < da302f1d476a44245823a74546debb5d160bf5bd (git)
Affected: ed5d588fe47feef290f271022820e255d8371561 , < dac14a1dbe20e003215dacb8a3a1a7e4ca4e0ad0 (git)
Affected: ed5d588fe47feef290f271022820e255d8371561 , < 0ec26716e45d615edfff46012e7dedcc0ac5f7ab (git)
Affected: ed5d588fe47feef290f271022820e255d8371561 , < 88975a55969e11f26fe3846bf4fbf8e7dc8cbbd4 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.7
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.7 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.195 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.132 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.54 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.4 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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