CVE-2023-4611

medium

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in mm/mempolicy.c in the memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue is caused by a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page fault, and may allow a local attacker to crash the system or lead to a kernel information leak.

References

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-08-29

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00049