CVE-2023-53606

CVE-2023-53606

High · published October 4, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

nfsd: clean up potential nfsd_file refcount leaks in COPY codepath

There are two different flavors of the nfsd4_copy struct. One is

embedded in the compound and is used directly in synchronous copies. The

other is dynamically allocated, refcounted and tracked in the client

struture. For the embedded one, the cleanup just involves releasing any

nfsd_files held on its behalf. For the async one, the cleanup is a bit

more involved, and we need to dequeue it from lists, unhash it, etc.

There is at least one potential refcount leak in this code now. If the

kthread_create call fails, then both the src and dst nfsd_files in the

original nfsd4_copy object are leaked.

The cleanup in this codepath is also sort of weird. In the async copy

case, we'll have up to four nfsd_file references (src and dst for both

flavors of copy structure). They are both put at the end of

nfsd4_do_async_copy, even though the ones held on behalf of the embedded

one outlive that structure.

Change it so that we always clean up the nfsd_file refs held by the

embedded copy structure before nfsd4_copy returns. Rework

cleanup_async_copy to handle both inter and intra copies. Eliminate

nfsd4_cleanup_intra_ssc since it now becomes a no-op.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00280 · 19.3th percentile
Published
2025-10-04T20:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 5.10.2205.10.220
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1545.15.154
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.166.1.16
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.2.36.2.3
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 04 OCT 15:44Z
    nfsd: clean up potential nfsd_file refcount leaks in COPY codepath
    cvelistv5