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GHSA-J4R5-9QQM-P694

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-06 19:24 – Updated: 2025-02-13 18:31

Details

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel io_uring subsystem can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

Both io_install_fixed_file and its callers call fput in a file in case of an error, causing a reference underflow which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability.

We recommend upgrading past commit 9d94c04c0db024922e886c9fd429659f22f48ea4.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2023-2236 (GCVE-0-2023-2236)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-05-01 12:50 – Updated: 2025-03-05 19:03

Title

Use-after-free in Linux kernel's Performance Events subsystem

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel io_uring subsystem can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Both io_install_fixed_file and its callers call fput in a file in case of an error, causing a reference underflow which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit 9d94c04c0db024922e886c9fd429659f22f48ea4.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-05 18:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

Google Google root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/t…	patch
https://kernel.dance/9d94c04c0db024922e886c9fd429…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023060…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux Kernel	Affected: 5.19 , < 6.1 (custom)

Date Public

2022-11-25 13:54

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