CVE-2023-54258
UNSCOREDDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential oops in cifs_oplock_break With deferred close we can have closes that race with lease breaks, and so with the current checks for whether to send the lease response, oplock_response(), this can mean that an unmount (kill_sb) can occur just before we were checking if the tcon->ses is valid. See below: [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RIP: 0010:cifs_oplock_break+0x1f7/0x5b0 [cifs] [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Code: 7d a8 48 8b 7d c0 c0 e9 02 48 89 45 b8 41 89 cf e8 3e f5 ff ff 4c 89 f7 41 83 e7 01 e8 82 b3 03 f2 49 8b 45 50 48 85 c0 74 5e <48> 83 78 60 00 74 57 45 84 ff 75 52 48 8b 43 98 48 83 eb 68 48 39 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RSP: 0018:ffffb30607ddbdf8 EFLAGS: 00010206 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RAX: 632d223d32612022 RBX: ffff97136944b1e0 RCX: 0000000080100009 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000080100009 RDI: ffff97136944b188 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] RBP: ffffb30607ddbe58 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffc08e0900 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffff97136944b138 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] R13: ffff97149147c000 R14: ffff97136944b188 R15: 0000000000000000 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9714f7c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] CR2: 00007fd8de9c7590 CR3: 000000011228e000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] Call Trace: [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] <TASK> [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] process_one_work+0x225/0x3d0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] worker_thread+0x4d/0x3e0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] kthread+0x12a/0x150 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [Fri Aug 4 04:12:50 2023] </TASK> To fix this change the ordering of the checks before sending the oplock_response to first check if the openFileList is empty.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3.1 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 6% of all known CVEs.
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