Race Condition Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.3-rc2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3362216
  • published17 Mar 2023
  • disclosed16 Mar 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.3-rc2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition in the do_tls_getsockopt() function in net/tls/tls_main.c, which could result in a use-after-free or null pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1