cve-2023-4611
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-29 21:25
Modified
2025-02-27 21:03
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.htmlMailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.htmlMailing List, Patch
Impacted products
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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