Use After Free Affecting kernel-macros package, versions <4.12.14-150100.197.160.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-KERNELMACROS-6044589
  • published3 Nov 2023
  • disclosed2 Nov 2023

Introduced: 2 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-4622  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 kernel-macros to version 4.12.14-150100.197.160.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-macros package and not the kernel-macros package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free.

We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1