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CVE-2023-4611

HIGH

7.0

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in mm/mempolicy.c in the memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue is caused by a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page fault, and may allow a local attacker to crash the system or lead to a kernel information leak.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.0

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityHIGH

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published8/29/2023

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416CWE-416

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244(secalert@redhat.com)

https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.html(secalert@redhat.com)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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