CVE-2023-23039

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.2.0-rc2. drivers/tty/vcc.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a VCC device while calling open(), aka a race condition between vcc_open() and vcc_remove().

References

https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/1/169

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-22

Updated: 2025-03-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H