CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-1829

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
1.04%

60th percentile - higher than 60% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) allows local privilege escalation. The tcindex_delete function does not properly deactivate filters in case of perfect hashes, leading to double freeing. A local attacker can escalate privileges to root.

Risk Assessment

A local user can gain full root privileges, enabling full system compromise.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix (commit 8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28).

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Original NVD description (English source)

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The tcindex_delete function which does not properly deactivate filters in case of a perfect hashes while deleting the underlying structure which can later lead to double freeing the structure. A local attacker user can use this vulnerability to elevate its privileges to root. We recommend upgrading past commit 8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/ .

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS