CVE-2023-4622 — Use-after-free in Linux kernel's af_unix component
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 ad…
Published: 2023-09-06 · CVSS: 7.8 · CVSS 3.1
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 is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c (or backported equivalents).
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7