DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53799

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: api - Use work queue in cryptodestroyinstance The function cryptodropspawn expects to be called in process context. However, when an instance is unregistered while it still has active users, the last user may cause the...

CVE-2023-53799

CVE-2023-53799 affects the Linux kernel crypto subsystem where crypto_destroy_instance could free an instance in atomic context if the last user unregisters while active. Root cause: crypto_drop_spawn may be invoked outside process context, risking atomic-context frees. Fix: defer the freeing to ...