CVE-2023-52757

2024-05-2116:15:15

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux

kernel

vulnerability

smb

deadlock

fix

potential

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix potential deadlock when releasing mids

All release_mid() callers seem to hold a reference of @mid so there is
no need to call kref_put(&mid->refcount, __release_mid) under
@server->mid_lock spinlock. If they don’t, then an use-after-free bug
would have occurred anyways.

By getting rid of such spinlock also fixes a potential deadlock as
shown below

CPU 0 CPU 1

cifs_demultiplex_thread() cifs_debug_data_proc_show()
release_mid()
spin_lock(&server->mid_lock);
spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock)
spin_lock(&server->mid_lock)
__release_mid()
smb2_find_smb_tcon()
spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock) deadlock