CVE-2023-4622 (GCVE-0-2023-4622)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-09-06 13:56 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's af_unix component
Summary
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free.
We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-416 - Use After Free
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
Date Public
2023-08-23 15:52
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