Vulnerability CVE-2023-6546


Published: 2023-12-21

Description:
A race condition was found in the GSM 0710 tty multiplexor in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs when two threads execute the GSMIOC_SETCONF ioctl on the same tty file descriptor with the gsm line discipline enabled, and can lead to a use-after-free problem on a struct gsm_dlci while restarting the gsm mux. This could allow a local unprivileged user to escalate their privileges on the system.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6546
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2255498
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3c4f8333b582487a2d1e02171f1465531cde53e3

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