CVE-2023-52447 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
6.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5OSV7.0OSV6.5OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.42%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 22
Latest updateJul 26
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Defer the free of inner map when necessary
When updating or deleting an inner map in map array or map htab, the map
may still be accessed by non-sleepable program or sleepable program.
However bpf_map_fd_put_ptr() decreases the ref-counter of the inner map
directly through bpf_map_put(), if the ref-counter is the last one
(which is true for most cases), the inner map will be freed by
ops->map_free() in a kworker. But for …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages11 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxbba1dc0b55ac462d24ed1228ad49800c238cd6d7 — 90c445799fd1dc214d7c6279c144e33a35e29ef2+6