Use After Free Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,6.7-rc6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-6139941
  • published27 Dec 2023
  • disclosed26 Dec 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-51781  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.7-rc6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the atalk_ioctl function in net/appletalk/ddp.c file. This can cause a race condition within atalk_recvmsg() function.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1