Vulnerability CVE-2023-1838


Published: 2023-04-05

Description:
A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

 References:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220516084213.26854-1-jasowang@redhat.com/T/

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