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CVE-2023-53061 (GCVE-0-2023-53061)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:55 – Updated: 2026-05-11 19:37
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: fix possible refcount leak in smb2_open()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix possible refcount leak in smb2_open() Reference count of acls will leak when memory allocation fails. Fix this by adding the missing posix_acl_release().
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < c33344b7972225b232966f95d31f6312dcc6273d (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 303f8e58cc3ace744801dcdcabfc06ffc72ed62d (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < a22c49a05e5e7aa2c414fbc42c49c4c01a5c9a78 (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 2624b445544ffc1472ccabfb6ec867c199d4c95c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.105 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.22 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.9 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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