Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.6-rc7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6037957
  • published27 Oct 2023
  • disclosed27 Oct 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-46813  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6-rc7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition') in the "#VC handler" and "SEV-ES emulation of MMIO accesses" components. An attacker can gain arbitrary write access to kernel memory, leading to privilege escalation, by exploiting a race condition that allows userspace to replace an instruction before the #VC handler reads it.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the attacker has userspace access to MMIO registers.

CVSS Base Scores

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