# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-52757"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-05-21T15:30:44.248Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:26:56.960Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52757"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-52757.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-52757"
title: "smb: client: fix potential deadlock when releasing mids"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix potential deadlock when releasing mids\n\nAll release_mid() callers seem to hold a reference of @mid so there is\nno need to call kref_put(&mid-\u003erefcount, __release_mid) under\n@server-\u003emid_lock spinlock.  If they don't, then an use-after-free bug\nwould have occurred anyways.\n\nBy getting rid of such spinlock also fixes a potential deadlock as\nshown below\n\nCPU 0                                CPU 1\n------------------------------------------------------------------\ncifs_demultiplex_thread()            cifs_debug_data_proc_show()\n release_mid()\n  spin_lock(&server-\u003emid_lock);\n                                     spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock)\n\t\t\t\t      spin_lock(&server-\u003emid_lock)\n  __release_mid()\n   smb2_find_smb_tcon()\n    spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock) *deadlock*"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"99f476e27aad5964ab13777d84fda67d1356dec1"},{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ce49569079a9d4cad26c0f1d4653382fd9a5ca7a"},{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9eb44db68c5b7f5aa22b8fc7de74a3e2e08d1f29"},{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9bb9607b1fc12fca51f5632da25b36975f599bf"},{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1a5962f1462b64fe7b69f20a4b6af8067bc2d26"},{"version":"7b71843fa7028475b052107664cbe120156a2cfc","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6322fd177c6885a21dd4609dc5e5c973d1a2eb7"},{"version":"9871dea42034ee6e73bb2b97ba0284d3d462b230","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.4.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.10.237","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.181","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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