CVE-2023-53006: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix oops due to uncleared server->smbd_conn in reconnect In smbd_destroy(), clear the server->smbd_conn pointer after freeing the smbd_connection struct that it points to so that reconnection doesn't get confused.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.16, before 4.19.272 (fixed in 4.19.272); from 4.20, before 5.4.231 (fixed in 5.4.231); from 5.5, before 5.10.166 (fixed in 5.10.166); from 5.11, before 5.15.91 (fixed in 5.15.91); from 5.16, before 6.1.9 (fixed in 6.1.9); version 6.2 only

Published 2025-03-27. Last modified 2026-08-04.