CVE-2023-53597

cifs: fix mid leak during reconnection after timeout threshold

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 4, 2025 at 03:44 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 10:24 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix mid leak during reconnection after timeout threshold When the number of responses with status of STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT exceeds a specified threshold (NUM_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT), we reconnect the connection. But we do not return the mid, or the credits returned for the mid, or reduce the number of in-flight requests. This bug could result in the server->in_flight count to go bad, and also cause a leak in the mids. This change moves the check to a few lines below where the response is decrypted, even of the response is read from the transform header. This way, the code for returning the mids can be reused. Also, the cifs_reconnect was reconnecting just the transport connection before. In case of multi-channel, this may not be what we want to do after several timeouts. Changed that to reconnect the session and the tree too. Also renamed NUM_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to a more appropriate name MAX_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 5.9.55.10 ≤ v < 5.15.1505.10 ≤ v < 6.1.425.10 ≤ v < 6.4.75.10 ≤ v < 6.55.16 ≤ v < 6.1.425.9.5 ≤ v < 5.105.9.5 ≤ v < 5.15.1506.2 ≤ v < 6.4.75.9.56.5 rc18e670f77c4a55013db6d23b962f9bf6673a5e7b6fa6d7a5853f93efb088aba36af12cb1944156411
Vendor states this is fixed in 57d25e9905c71133e201f6d06b56a3403d4ad433 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 69cba9d3c1284e0838ae408830a02c4a063104bc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c55901d381a22300c9922170e59704059f50977b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in df31d05f0678cdd0796ea19983a2b93edca18bb0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.150 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.42 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.4.7 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.5 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-401

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