Vulnerability CVE-2023-42756


Published: 2023-09-28

Description:
A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A race condition between IPSET_CMD_ADD and IPSET_CMD_SWAP can lead to a kernel panic due to the invocation of `__ip_set_put` on a wrong `set`. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42756
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/242
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239848

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