CVE-2023-53373

crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly

High · published September 18, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly

As it is seqiv only handles the special return value of EINPROGERSS,

which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the

request.

However, as the caller of seqiv 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00165 · 5.4th percentile
Published
2025-09-18T13:33Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 13:33Z
    crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly
    cvelistv5