# 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-2023-53990"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T10:55:29.156Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T09:16:31.988Z"
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-2023-53990"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-53990.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53990"
title: "SMB3: Add missing locks to protect deferred close file list"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSMB3: Add missing locks to protect deferred close file list\n\ncifs_del_deferred_close function has a critical section which modifies\nthe deferred close file list. We must acquire deferred_lock before\ncalling cifs_del_deferred_close function."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"860efae127888ae535bc4eda1b7f27642727c69e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f87e18203bd30f71eb1a65259e28e291b6cc43a"},{"version":"ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3aa9d065b0685b4e6052f3f2a2462966fdc44fd2"},{"version":"ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb36365dac25d546ca4af0eb22acb43c9b4ddfdf"},{"version":"ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"32a046ccaeea6c19965c04a4c521e703f6607924"},{"version":"ca08d0eac020d48a3141dbec0a3cf64fbdb17cde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab9ddc87a9055c4bebd6524d5d761d605d52e557"},{"version":"60b6d38add7b9c17d6e5d49ee8e930ea1a5650c5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.63","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.111"},{"version":"5.19.4","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.20"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"5.15.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.2.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.2.*"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.3.*"},{"version":"6.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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