FKIE_CVE-2023-3212

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-06-23 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:13
Severity
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the gfs2 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs on corrupt gfs2 file systems when the evict code tries to reference the journal descriptor structure after it has been freed and set to NULL. A privileged local user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214348Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/504a10d9e46bc37b23d0a1ae2f28973c8516e636Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0005/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5448Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214348Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/504a10d9e46bc37b23d0a1ae2f28973c8516e636Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0005/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5448Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.4
fedoraproject fedora 38
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
debian debian_linux 11.0
debian debian_linux 12.0
netapp h300s_firmware -
netapp h300s -
netapp h500s_firmware -
netapp h500s -
netapp h700s_firmware -
netapp h700s -
netapp h410s_firmware -
netapp h410s -
netapp h410c_firmware -
netapp h410c -
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