Security Advisory

CVE-2023-2612

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-05-30 23:12:29
Last updated 2025-02-13 16:44:50
Assigner canonical
State PUBLISHED

Description

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).