CVE-2023-6039

medium

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in lan78xx_disconnect in drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c in the network sub-component, net/usb/lan78xx in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system when the LAN78XX USB device detaches.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1e7417c188d0a83fb385ba2dbe35fd2563f2b6f3

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248755

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6039

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-11-09

Updated: 2023-11-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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