CVE Catalog

CVE-2023-6932

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system, posing a serious security risk to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's ipv4: igmp component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A race condition can be exploited to cause a timer be mistakenly registered on a RCU read locked object which is freed by another thread. We recommend upgrading past commit e2b706c691905fe78468c361aaabc719d0a496f1.

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