Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,v6.0-rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5500440
  • published9 May 2023
  • disclosed9 May 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 May 2023

CVE-2023-2513  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version v6.0-rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the ext4 filesystem allowing a privileged local user to cause a system crash or other undefined behaviours.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1