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CVE-2023-2612
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.4
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-05-31T00:15:10.257 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:53:00.730

Summary

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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