# 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-2023-53804"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-09T00:01:01.787Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:16:07.269Z"
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-2023-53804"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53804.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53804"
title: "nilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of nilfs_root in nilfs_evict_inode()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnilfs2: fix use-after-free bug of nilfs_root in nilfs_evict_inode()\n\nDuring unmount process of nilfs2, nothing holds nilfs_root structure after\nnilfs2 detaches its writer in nilfs_detach_log_writer().  However, since\nnilfs_evict_inode() uses nilfs_root for some cleanup operations, it may\ncause use-after-free read if inodes are left in \"garbage_list\" and\nreleased by nilfs_dispose_list() at the end of nilfs_detach_log_writer().\n\nFix this issue by modifying nilfs_evict_inode() to only clear inode\nwithout additional metadata changes that use nilfs_root if the file system\nis degraded to read-only or the writer is detached."
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