{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52803 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2023-52803 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-52803 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-52803 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52803 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52803/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52803/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-52803","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52803/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-52803","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2023-52803","DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52803","GHSA-v93c-228v-m7cm","UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52803"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel SUNRPC subsystem allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries\n\nRPC client pipefs dentries cleanup is in separated rpc_remove_pipedir()\nworkqueue,which takes care about pipefs superblock locking.\nIn some special scenarios, when kernel frees the pipefs sb of the\ncurrent client and immediately alloctes a new pipefs sb,\nrpc_remove_pipedir function would misjudge the existence of pipefs\nsb which is not the one it used to hold. As a result,\nthe rpc_remove_pipedir would clean the released freed pipefs dentries.\n\nTo fix this issue, rpc_remove_pipedir should check whether the\ncurrent pipefs sb is consistent with the original pipefs sb.\n\nThis error can be catched by KASAN:\n=========================================================\n[  250.497700] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dget_parent+0x195/0x200\n[  250.498315] Read of size 4 at addr ffff88800a2ab804 by task kworker/0:18/106503\n[  250.500549] Workqueue: events rpc_free_client_work\n[  250.501001] Call Trace:\n[  250.502880]  kasan_report+0xb6/0xf0\n[  250.503209]  ? dget_parent+0x195/0x200\n[  250.503561]  dget_parent+0x195/0x200\n[  250.503897]  ? __pfx_rpc_clntdir_depopulate+0x10/0x10\n[  250.504384]  rpc_rmdir_depopulate+0x1b/0x90\n[  250.504781]  rpc_remove_client_dir+0xf5/0x150\n[  250.505195]  rpc_free_client_work+0xe4/0x230\n[  250.505598]  process_one_work+0x8ee/0x13b0\n...\n[   22.039056] Allocated by task 244:\n[   22.039390]  kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50\n[   22.039758]  kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30\n[   22.040109]  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x59/0x70\n[   22.040487]  kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0xf0/0x240\n[   22.040889]  __d_alloc+0x31/0x8e0\n[   22.041207]  d_alloc+0x44/0x1f0\n[   22.041514]  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive+0x11c/0x140\n[   22.041987]  rpc_mkdir_populate.constprop.0+0x5f/0x110\n[   22.042459]  rpc_create_client_dir+0x34/0x150\n[   22.042874]  rpc_setup_pipedir_sb+0x102/0x1c0\n[   22.043284]  rpc_client_register+0x136/0x4e0\n[   22.043689]  rpc_new_client+0x911/0x1020\n[   22.044057]  rpc_create_xprt+0xcb/0x370\n[   22.044417]  rpc_create+0x36b/0x6c0\n...\n[   22.049524] Freed by task 0:\n[   22.049803]  kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50\n[   22.050165]  kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30\n[   22.050520]  kasan_save_free_info+0x2b/0x50\n[   22.050921]  __kasan_slab_free+0x10e/0x1a0\n[   22.051306]  kmem_cache_free+0xa5/0x390\n[   22.051667]  rcu_core+0x62c/0x1930\n[   22.051995]  __do_softirq+0x165/0x52a\n[   22.052347]\n[   22.052503] Last potentially related work creation:\n[   22.052952]  kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50\n[   22.053313]  __kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8e/0xa0\n[   22.053739]  __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x6b/0x8b0\n[   22.054209]  dentry_free+0xb2/0x140\n[   22.054540]  __dentry_kill+0x3be/0x540\n[   22.054900]  shrink_dentry_list+0x199/0x510\n[   22.055293]  shrink_dcache_parent+0x190/0x240\n[   22.055703]  do_one_tree+0x11/0x40\n[   22.056028]  shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x61/0x140\n[   22.056461]  generic_shutdown_super+0x70/0x590\n[   22.056879]  kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60\n[   22.057234]  rpc_kill_sb+0x121/0x200","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"SUNRPC: Fix RPC client cleaned up the freed pipefs dentries","id":"CVE-2023-52803","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2023"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"fs/jfs: Add validity check for db_maxag and db_agpref","id":"CVE-2023-52804"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"This CVE ID has been rejected or withdrawn by its CVE Numbering Authority.","id":"CVE-2023-52802"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-05-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel SUNRPC subsystem allows attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute code.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-52803/"}