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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53597"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:44:09.616Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:15:00.757Z"
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-2023-53597"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53597.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53597"
title: "cifs: fix mid leak during reconnection after timeout threshold"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: fix mid leak during reconnection after timeout threshold\n\nWhen the number of responses with status of STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT\nexceeds a specified threshold (NUM_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT), we reconnect\nthe connection. But we do not return the mid, or the credits\nreturned for the mid, or reduce the number of in-flight requests.\n\nThis bug could result in the server-\u003ein_flight count to go bad,\nand also cause a leak in the mids.\n\nThis change moves the check to a few lines below where the\nresponse is decrypted, even of the response is read from the\ntransform header. This way, the code for returning the mids\ncan be reused.\n\nAlso, the cifs_reconnect was reconnecting just the transport\nconnection before. In case of multi-channel, this may not be\nwhat we want to do after several timeouts. Changed that to\nreconnect the session and the tree too.\n\nAlso renamed NUM_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT to a more appropriate name\nMAX_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8e670f77c4a55013db6d23b962f9bf6673a5e7b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df31d05f0678cdd0796ea19983a2b93edca18bb0"},{"version":"8e670f77c4a55013db6d23b962f9bf6673a5e7b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c55901d381a22300c9922170e59704059f50977b"},{"version":"8e670f77c4a55013db6d23b962f9bf6673a5e7b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"57d25e9905c71133e201f6d06b56a3403d4ad433"},{"version":"8e670f77c4a55013db6d23b962f9bf6673a5e7b6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69cba9d3c1284e0838ae408830a02c4a063104bc"},{"version":"fa6d7a5853f93efb088aba36af12cb1944156411","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.9.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10"},{"version":"5.15.150","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.4.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.4.*"},{"version":"6.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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