Vulnerability CVE-2023-6039
Published: 2023-11-09

Description:
A use-after-free flaw was found in lan78xx_disconnect in drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c in the network sub-component, net/usb/lan78xx in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system when the LAN78XX USB device detaches.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6039
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248755
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1e7417c188d0a83fb385ba2dbe35fd2563f2b6f3
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