# 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-2023-53116"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-02T15:55:54.858Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:27.153Z"
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-2023-53116"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53116.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53116"
title: "nvmet: avoid potential UAF in nvmet_req_complete()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet: avoid potential UAF in nvmet_req_complete()\n\nAn nvme target -\u003equeue_response() operation implementation may free the\nrequest passed as argument. Such implementation potentially could result\nin a use after free of the request pointer when percpu_ref_put() is\ncalled in nvmet_req_complete().\n\nAvoid such problem by using a local variable to save the sq pointer\nbefore calling __nvmet_req_complete(), thus avoiding dereferencing the\nreq pointer after that function call."
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