CVE-2023-3159

A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner":  "redhat",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
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}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Events

Introduced

c5eb0a61238dd6faf37f58c9ce61c9980aaffd7a

Fixed

b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ff

Database specific

Show details

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                },
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            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "strategy":  "StandaloneSingleVersion"
        },
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            "range":  [
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Affected versions

Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.*

Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-3159.json"

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vanir_signatures_modified

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