crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly
CVE-2023-53373

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Key Information:

Vendor

Linux

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 September 2025

What is CVE-2023-53373?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly

As it is seqiv only handles the special return value of EINPROGERSS, which means that in all other cases it will free data related to the request.

However, as the caller of seqiv may specify MAY_BACKLOG, we also need to expect EBUSY and treat it in the same way. Otherwise backlogged requests will trigger a use-after-free.

Affected Version(s)

Linux 0a270321dbf948963aeb0e8382fe17d2c2eb3771

Linux 0a270321dbf948963aeb0e8382fe17d2c2eb3771 < 1effbddaff60eeef8017c6dea1ee0ed970164d14

Linux 0a270321dbf948963aeb0e8382fe17d2c2eb3771 < 63551e4b7cbcd9914258827699eb2cb6ed6e4a16

References

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2023-53373 : Linux Kernel Vulnerability in seqiv Function Leading to Use-After-Free