CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6531
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-01-21
- Last modified
- 2026-08-06
- 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])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux Kernel due to a race problem in the unix garbage collector's deletion of SKB races with unix_stream_read_generic() on the socket that the SKB is queued on.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.7
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6531 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253034 Issue Tracking
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/c716c88321939156909cfa1bd8b0faaf1c804103.1701868795.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/ Mailing List, Patch
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/176533/Linux-Broken-Unix-GC-Interaction-Use-After-Free.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6531 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253034 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00005.html lists.debian.org
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/c716c88321939156909cfa1bd8b0faaf1c804103.1701868795.git.asml.silence@gmail.com/ Mailing List, Patch