THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2023-4622 (HIGH 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where uni
[NVD] CVE-2023-4622 (HIGH 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where uni
CVE-2023-4622 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2023-09-06T14:15:12.193
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that
Indicators of compromise
- 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02csha1
- CVE-2023-4622cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4622