CVE-2023-6932
CVSS 3.1 Score 7.0 of 10 (high)
Details
Published Dec 19, 2023
Updated: Feb 8, 2024
CWE ID 416
Summary
CVE-2023-6932 is a use-after-free vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component. A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer to be mistakenly registered on an RCU read-locked object, which is later freed by another thread. This issue allows an attacker to achieve local privilege escalation on the affected system. To mitigate this vulnerability, it is recommended to upgrade past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.
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