CVE-2023-53052
cifs: fix use-after-free bug in refresh_cache_worker()
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
02 May 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix use-after-free bug in refresh_cache_worker()
The UAF bug occurred because we were putting DFS root sessions in
cifs_umount() while DFS cache refresher was being executed.
Make DFS root sessions have same lifetime as DFS tcons so we can avoid
the use-after-free bug is DFS cache refresher and other places that
require IPCs to get new DFS referrals on. Also, get rid of mount
group handling in DFS cache as we no longer need it.
This fixes below use-after-free bug catched by KASAN
[ 379.946955] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __refresh_tcon.isra.0+0x10b/0xc10 [cifs]
[ 379.947642] Read of size 8 at addr ffff888018f57030 by task kworker/u4:3/56
[ 379.948096]
[ 379.948208] CPU: 0 PID: 56 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 6.2.0-rc7-lku #23
[ 379.948661] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552-rebuilt.opensuse.org 04/01/2014
[ 379.949368] Workqueue: cifs-dfscache refresh_cache_worker [cifs]
[ 379.949942] Call Trace:
[ 379.950113] <TASK>
[ 379.950260] dump_stack_lvl+0x50/0x67
[ 379.950510] print_report+0x16a/0x48e
[ 379.950759] ? __virt_addr_valid+0xd8/0x160
[ 379.951040] ? __phys_addr+0x41/0x80
[ 379.951285] kasan_report+0xdb/0x110
[ 379.951533] ? __refresh_tcon.isra.0+0x10b/0xc10 [cifs]
[ 379.952056] ? __refresh_tcon.isra.0+0x10b/0xc10 [cifs]
[ 379.952585] __refresh_tcon.isra.0+0x10b/0xc10 [cifs]
[ 379.953096] ? __pfx___refresh_tcon.isra.0+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
[ 379.953637] ? __pfx___mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
[ 379.953915] ? lock_release+0xb6/0x720
[ 379.954167] ? __pfx_lock_acquire+0x10/0x10
[ 379.954443] ? refresh_cache_worker+0x34e/0x6d0 [cifs]
[ 379.954960] ? __pfx_wb_workfn+0x10/0x10
[ 379.955239] refresh_cache_worker+0x4ad/0x6d0 [cifs]
[ 379.955755] ? __pfx_refresh_cache_worker+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
[ 379.956323] ? __pfx_lock_acquired+0x10/0x10
[ 379.956615] ? read_word_at_a_time+0xe/0x20
[ 379.956898] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x12/0x220
[ 379.957235] process_one_work+0x535/0x990
[ 379.957509] ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
[ 379.957812] ? lock_acquired+0xb7/0x5f0
[ 379.958069] ? __list_add_valid+0x37/0xd0
[ 379.958341] ? __list_add_valid+0x37/0xd0
[ 379.958611] worker_thread+0x8e/0x630
[ 379.958861] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 379.959148] kthread+0x17d/0x1b0
[ 379.959369] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 379.959630] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[ 379.959879] </TASK>
Affected products
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