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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2023-4244 (HIGH 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to und

[NVD] CVE-2023-4244 (HIGH 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to und

lownvdPublished 2023-09-06

CVE-2023-4244 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2023-09-06T14:15:11.877

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

Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free v

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4244