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Tracker / CVE-2023-1838

CVE-2023-1838

High 7.1

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 4.13 → 4.14.317
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.245
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.196
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.42
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 5.17.10
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.118
netapp h300s
netapp h410c
netapp h410s
netapp h500s
netapp h700s

Analysis

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