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CVE-2023-52479 (GCVE-0-2023-52479)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-29 05:43 – Updated: 2026-08-15 12:23
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: fix uaf in smb20_oplock_break_ack
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix uaf in smb20_oplock_break_ack drop reference after use opinfo.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:51 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 694e13732e830cbbfedb562e57f28644927c33fd (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < 8226ffc759ea59f10067b9acdf7f94bae1c69930 (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < d5b0e9d3563e7e314a850e81f42b2ef6f39882f9 (git)
Affected: e2f34481b24db2fd634b5edb0a5bd0e4d38cc6e9 , < c69813471a1ec081a0b9bf0c6bd7e8afd818afce (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.135 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.57 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.5.7 , ≤ 6.5.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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