CVE-2023-1476 (GCVE-0-2023-1476)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-03 08:07
Modified
2025-02-27 20:34
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s mm/mremap memory address space accounting source code. This issue occurs due to a race condition between rmap walk and mremap, allowing a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
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Impacted products
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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