Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-KERNELHEADERS-5428991
  • published19 Apr 2023
  • disclosed17 Jan 2023

Introduced: 17 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-2162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by Centos.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create in drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c in SCSI sub-component in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw an attacker could leak kernel internal information.