CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-4611
6.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2023-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-09-11
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in mm/mempolicy.c in the memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue is caused by a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page fault, and may allow a local attacker to crash the system or lead to a kernel information leak.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.4 < 6.4.8)
• linux linux kernel 6.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.html Mailing List, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.html Mailing List, Patch