CVE-2023-2513

Summary

CVECVE-2023-2513
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-08 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 04:12:00 UTC
DescriptionA use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's ext4 filesystem in the way it handled the extra inode size for extended attributes. This flaw could allow a privileged local user to cause a system crash or other undefined behaviors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[PATCH v3 0/4] ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry - Baokun Li lore.kernel.org
[PATCH v3 0/4] ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry - Baokun Li MISC lore.kernel.org
2193097 – (CVE-2023-2513) CVE-2023-2513 kernel: ext4: use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
ext4: fix use-after-free in ext4_xattr_set_entry · torvalds/linux@67d7d8a · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160949 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12842)
  • 161147 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2023-7077)
  • 181852 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-2513)
  • 199617 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6254-1)
  • 242434 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt security (RHSA-2023:6901)
  • 242451 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2023:7077)
  • 242855 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0412)
  • 355083 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-032
  • 355088 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-045
  • 355100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2023-2035
  • 355103 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2023-1744
  • 378701 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2023:0030)
  • 390290 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2023-0023)
  • 6140081 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-q3wq-fc3p-vjrw)
  • 673288 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2631)
  • 673310 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2601)
  • 673393 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2647)
  • 674113 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2689)
  • 754097 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2507-1)
  • 754105 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2537-1)
  • 754106 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2534-1)
  • 754110 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2538-1)
  • 754120 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2611-1)
  • 754145 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2651-1)
  • 755851 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2646-1)
  • 906884 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hyperv-daemons (26681-1)
  • 906947 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (26689-1)
  • 906983 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (26682-1)
  • 941453 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2023:7077)
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