fkie_cve-2023-3159
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-06-12 21:15
Modified
2025-04-23 17:16
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ffPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ffPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18


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