Security Advisory

CVE-2023-1838

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-04-05 00:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-02 06:05:26

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

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