CVE detail

CVE-2023-4622 — CVE-2023-4622

Published 2023-09-06 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
7.8
CVSS v3
0–10 scale
0.0055
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
43.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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