Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.5-rc5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5889618
  • published8 Sept 2023
  • disclosed29 Jul 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Jul 2023

CVE-2023-4206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.5-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the net/sched: cls_route component which can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1