FKIE_CVE-2023-6531

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-01-21 10:15 - Updated: 2025-11-04 19:16
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176533/Linux-Broken-Unix-GC-Interaction-Use-After-Free.html
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://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00005.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lore.kernel.org/all/c716c88321939156909cfa1bd8b0faaf1c804103.1701868795.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/Mailing List, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.7
linux linux_kernel 6.7
linux linux_kernel 6.7
linux linux_kernel 6.7
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
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