Vulnerability CVE-2023-1476
Published: 2023-11-03

Description:
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel??s mm/mremap memory address space accounting source code. This issue occurs due to a race condition between rmap walk and mremap, allowing a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1659
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1476
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=97113eb39fa7972722ff490b947d8af023e1f6a2
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176035
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