Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.7-rc7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6144968
  • published5 Jan 2024
  • disclosed25 Dec 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-51779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.7-rc7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition between the bt_sock_recvmsg and bt_sock_ioctl functions. An attacker can cause a denial of service condition or potentially execute arbitrary code by exploiting the use-after-free condition on a socket buffer ("skb").

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1