CVE-2023-4244

Publication date

2023-09-06 13:53:24

Family

Google

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernels netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8.