Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.2-rc6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5752459
  • published4 Jul 2023
  • disclosed17 Jan 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jan 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.2-rc6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the iscsi_sw_tcp_session_create() function in drivers/scsi/iscsi_tcp.c in the SCSI component, due to a use-after-free flaw. An attacker can exploit this to leak kernel memory.

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