cve-2023-2163
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-20 05:02
Modified
2024-08-09 19:05
Severity ?
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
Incorrect Verifier Branch Pruning Logic Leads To Arbitrary Read/Write In Linux Kernel and Lateral Privilege Escalation
References
cve-coordination@google.comhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71b547f561247897a0a14f3082730156c0533fedMailing List, Patch
Impacted products
LinuxLinux Kernel
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