Vulnerability CVE-2023-5197
Published: 2023-09-27

Description:
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

Addition and removal of rules from chain bindings within the same transaction causes leads to use-after-free.

We recommend upgrading past commit f15f29fd4779be8a418b66e9d52979bb6d6c2325.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f15f29fd4779be8a418b66e9d52979bb6d6c2325
https://kernel.dance/f15f29fd4779be8a418b66e9d52979bb6d6c2325
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