CVE-2023-4622
Severity
7.0HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.39%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 1
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 12.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2023-4622: A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation↗2023-09-06
GHSA▶
GHSA-hxpr-87wq-jwf8: A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation↗2023-09-06