Bug 2396379 (CVE-2023-53373) - CVE-2023-53373 kernel: crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly
Summary: CVE-2023-53373 kernel: crypto: seqiv - Handle EBUSY correctly
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53373
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-18 14:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-13 04:01 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:17760 0 None None None 2025-10-13 04:01:38 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-18 14:01:39 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-09-18 16:22:58 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025091855-CVE-2023-53373-087e@gregkh/T
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-10-13 04:01:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:17760 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17760
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