CVE-2023-53597

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.

• CWE-401

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57d25e9905c71133e201f6d06b56a3403d4ad433Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69cba9d3c1284e0838ae408830a02c4a063104bcPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c55901d381a22300c9922170e59704059f50977bPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df31d05f0678cdd0796ea19983a2b93edca18bb0Patch

Published

Oct 4, 2025

Last Modified

Aug 4, 2026

Status

Modified

• How Strix found a critical auth bypass in etcdStrix autonomously discovered a critical authentication bypass in etcd, later designated CVE-2026-33413.
• Autonomous PentestingAI agents that find and validate exploitable vulnerabilities like this one across your applications.
• PR ReviewsPentest every pull request so vulnerable code is caught before it ships to production.
• AI Penetration TestingHow AI-driven penetration testing continuously covers your attack surface.

• CVE-2023-53591In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53592In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53593In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53594In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53595In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53596In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…7.8
• CVE-2023-53598In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53599In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-5360The Royal Elementor Addons and Templates WordPress plugin be…9.8
• CVE-2023-53600In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…7.1
• CVE-2023-53601In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5
• CVE-2023-53602In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been re…5.5