CVE-2023-53494

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5870848879291700fe6c5257dcb48aadd10425c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92a07ba4f0af2cccdc2aa5ee32679c9c9714db90

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/912eb10b65646ffd222256c78a1c566a3dac177d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c3e1d63b63dc0841d41df729297cd7c1c35808

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51c082514c2dedf2711c99d93c196cc4eedceb40

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-10-01

Updated: 2025-10-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00018