Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-5885668
  • published7 Sept 2023
  • disclosed28 Aug 2023

Introduced: 28 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4244  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

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

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free vulnerability.

We recommend upgrading past commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8.