CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-52439

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability in the UIO subsystem was fixed, involving use-after-free in uio_open. The issue occurred during device unregistration when another process could access already freed memory, potentially leading to double free.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crashes or potentially to privilege escalation if exploited by a local attacker.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version with the fix for CVE-2023-52439.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: uio: Fix use-after-free in uio_open core-1 core-2 ------------------------------------------------------- uio_unregister_device uio_open idev = idr_find() device_unregister(&idev->dev) put_device(&idev->dev) uio_device_release get_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev) uio_free_minor(minor) uio_release put_device(&idev->dev) kfree(idev) ------------------------------------------------------- In the core-1 uio_unregister_device(), the device_unregister will kfree idev when the idev->dev kobject ref is 1. But after core-1 device_unregister, put_device and before doing kfree, the core-2 may get_device. Then: 1. After core-1 kfree idev, the core-2 will do use-after-free for idev. 2. When core-2 do uio_release and put_device, the idev will be double freed. To address this issue, we can get idev atomic & inc idev reference with minor_lock.

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