CVE-2023-1838

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Apr 5, 2023
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Reserved: Apr 4, 2023

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Linux Kernel prior to kernel 5.18 25Affected

References

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220516084213.26854-1-jasowang%40redhat.com/T/
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0003/

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