Vulnerability CVE-2023-6932
Published: 2023-12-19

Description:
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread.

We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1
https://kernel.dance/e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1
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