CVE-2023-6531
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-21 10:01
Modified
2024-11-23 00:24
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 the Linux Kernel due to a race problem in the unix garbage collector's deletion of SKB races with unix_stream_read_generic() on the socket that the SKB is queued on.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6531Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253034Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lore.kernel.org/all/c716c88321939156909cfa1bd8b0faaf1c804103.1701868795.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6531Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253034Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/all/c716c88321939156909cfa1bd8b0faaf1c804103.1701868795.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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