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Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.7-rc6)

0.0
high
0
10

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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NVD
7 high
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Red Hat
7 high
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SUSE
7.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6139939
  • published 27 Dec 2023
  • disclosed 26 Dec 2023
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 26 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-51780 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.7-rc6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the do_vcc_ioctl function in net/atm/ioctl.c. This can cause a race condition within vcc_recvmsg().