CVE-2023-1838

Publication date

2023-04-05 00:00:00

Family

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.