cvelistv5 - cve-2023-0240

cve-2023-0240

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2023-01-30 13:17

Modified

2024-08-02 05:02

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Use after free in io_uring in the Linux Kernel

References

URL	Tags
cve-coordination@google.com	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/io_uring?h=linux-5.10.y&id=788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93	Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve-coordination@google.com	https://github.com/gregkh/linux/commit/1e6fa5216a0e59ef02e8b6b40d553238a3b81d49	Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve-coordination@google.com	https://kernel.dance/#788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93	Patch, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Linux	Linux Kernel

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