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CVE-2023-3609
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-07-21T21:15:11.743 · Last modified 2026-07-30T17:16:27.243

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If tcf_change_indev() fails, u32_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit 04c55383fa5689357bcdd2c8036725a55ed632bc.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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