Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications

Snyk Learn

Learn about Use After Free vulnerabilities in an interactive lesson.

Start learning
  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-5889625
  • published8 Sept 2023
  • disclosed6 Sept 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-4623  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the sch_hfsc component, allowing the attacker to achieve local privilege escalation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1