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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 5, 2023· Updated Aug 2, 2024

CVE-2023-1838

CVE-2023-1838

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.

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