Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4387

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-16 18:49:10

Last updated 2025-11-06 19:44:23

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMwares vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all, which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem.

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