CVE-2023-53055: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fscrypt: destroy keyring after security_sb_delete() fscrypt_destroy_keyring() must be called after all potentially-encrypted inodes were evicted; otherwise it cannot safely destroy the keyring. Since inodes that are in-use by the Landlock LSM don't get evicted until security_sb_delete(), this means that fscrypt_destroy_keyring() must be called *after* security_sb_delete(). This fixes a WARN_ON followed by a NULL dereference, only possible if Landlock was being used on encrypted files.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.10.154, before 5.11 (fixed in 5.11); from 5.15.78, before 5.15.105 (fixed in 5.15.105); from 6.0.8, before 6.1.22 (fixed in 6.1.22); from 6.2, before 6.2.9 (fixed in 6.2.9); version 6.3 only

Published 2025-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.