Vulnerability CVE-2023-4611


Published: 2023-08-29   Modified: 2023-08-30

Description:
A use-after-free flaw was found in mm/mempolicy.c in the memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue is caused by a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page fault, and may allow a local attacker to crash the system or lead to a kernel information leak.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4611
https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg310136.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2227244

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