CVE-2023-3159

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Jun 12, 2023
Updated: Apr 23, 2025
Reserved: Jun 8, 2023

Description

A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6Affected

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ff

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