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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53536"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:16:47.304Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:14:40.430Z"
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-2023-53536"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53536.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53536"
title: "blk-crypto: make blk_crypto_evict_key() more robust"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-crypto: make blk_crypto_evict_key() more robust\n\nIf blk_crypto_evict_key() sees that the key is still in-use (due to a\nbug) or that -\u003ekeyslot_evict failed, it currently just returns while\nleaving the key linked into the keyslot management structures.\n\nHowever, blk_crypto_evict_key() is only called in contexts such as inode\neviction where failure is not an option.  So actually the caller\nproceeds with freeing the blk_crypto_key regardless of the return value\nof blk_crypto_evict_key().\n\nThese two assumptions don't match, and the result is that there can be a\nuse-after-free in blk_crypto_reprogram_all_keys() after one of these\nerrors occurs.  (Note, these errors *shouldn't* happen; we're just\ntalking about what happens if they do anyway.)\n\nFix this by making blk_crypto_evict_key() unlink the key from the\nkeyslot management structures even on failure.\n\nAlso improve some comments."
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