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CVE-2023-2612

medium

Description

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6127-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6124-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6123-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6122-1

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2612

https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/kinetic/commit/?id=02b47547824b1cd0d55c6744f91886f04de8947e

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173087/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0095-1.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-05-31

Updated: 2023-06-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.8

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.7

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00038