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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-2023-54280"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-30T12:23:22.335Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:41:43.877Z"
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-2023-54280"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54280.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54280"
title: "cifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncifs: fix potential race when tree connecting ipc\n\nProtect access of TCP_Server_Info::hostname when building the ipc tree\nname as it might get freed in cifsd thread and thus causing an\nuse-after-free bug in __tree_connect_dfs_target().  Also, while at it,\nupdate status of IPC tcon on success and then avoid any extra tree\nconnects."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c88f7dcd6d6429197fc2fd87b54a894ffcd48e8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"536ec71ba060a02fabe8e22cecb82fe7b3a8708b"},{"version":"c88f7dcd6d6429197fc2fd87b54a894ffcd48e8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"553476df55a111e6a66ad9155256aec0ec1b7ad0"},{"version":"c88f7dcd6d6429197fc2fd87b54a894ffcd48e8e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ee20d7c6100752eaf2409d783f4f1449c29ea33d"},{"version":"81d583baa5f1abd73c755ce1992929debd20b687","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.81","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"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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