Security Advisory

CVE-2023-5178

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-11-01 16:32:20

Last updated 2026-03-24 11:22:55

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c` in `nvmet_tcp_free_crypto` due to a logical bug in the NVMe/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a malicious user to cause a use-after-free and double-free problem, which may permit remote code execution or lead to local privilege escalation.

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