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CVE-2023-1838
HIGH · CVSS 7.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-04-05T19:15:07.793 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:28:51.780

Summary

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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