{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-30T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: cifs: Fix lost destroy smbd connection when MR allocate failed",
    "id" : "2426234",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2426234"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.3",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-772",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\ncifs: Fix lost destroy smbd connection when MR allocate failed\nIf the MR allocate failed, the smb direct connection info is NULL,\nthen smbd_destroy() will directly return, then the connection info\nwill be leaked.\nLet's set the smb direct connection info to the server before call\nsmbd_destroy().", "A memory leak flaw was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS SMB Direct implementation. When memory region (MR) allocation fails during SMB Direct connection setup, the smbd_destroy() function returns early without cleaning up the connection info structure, resulting in a memory leak." ],
  "statement" : "This leak occurs only during SMB Direct connection failures, specifically when RDMA memory region allocation fails. Systems not using SMB Direct (RDMA-based CIFS) are unaffected. The leaked memory is per-failed-connection and does not accumulate during normal operation.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Fix deferred",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54260\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54260\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025123057-CVE-2023-54260-cc1d@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-54260",
  "csaw" : false
}