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CVE-2023-1855
medium
Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in xgene_hwmon_remove in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c in the Hardware Monitoring Linux Kernel Driver (xgene-hwmon). This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a race problem. This vulnerability could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.
References
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318122758.2140868-1-linux%40roeck-us.net/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cb090e64cf25602b9adaf32d5dfc9c8bec493cd1