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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-53608"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-10-04T15:44:17.302Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:15:06.157Z"
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-2023-53608"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53608.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53608"
title: "nilfs2: fix potential UAF of struct nilfs_sc_info in nilfs_segctor_thread()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix potential UAF of struct nilfs_sc_info in nilfs_segctor_thread()\n\nThe finalization of nilfs_segctor_thread() can race with\nnilfs_segctor_kill_thread() which terminates that thread, potentially\ncausing a use-after-free BUG as KASAN detected.\n\nAt the end of nilfs_segctor_thread(), it assigns NULL to \"sc_task\" member\nof \"struct nilfs_sc_info\" to indicate the thread has finished, and then\nnotifies nilfs_segctor_kill_thread() of this using waitqueue\n\"sc_wait_task\" on the struct nilfs_sc_info.\n\nHowever, here, immediately after the NULL assignment to \"sc_task\", it is\npossible that nilfs_segctor_kill_thread() will detect it and return to\ncontinue the deallocation, freeing the nilfs_sc_info structure before the\nthread does the notification.\n\nThis fixes the issue by protecting the NULL assignment to \"sc_task\" and\nits notification, with spinlock \"sc_state_lock\" of the struct\nnilfs_sc_info.  Since nilfs_segctor_kill_thread() does a final check to\nsee if \"sc_task\" is NULL with \"sc_state_lock\" locked, this can eliminate\nthe race."
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