Medium severity5.7NVD Advisory· Published Feb 22, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-23039
CVE-2023-23039
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.2.0-rc2. drivers/tty/vcc.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a VCC device while calling open(), aka a race condition between vcc_open() and vcc_remove().
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References
1- lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/1/169nvdMailing ListPatch
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