CVE-2023-2612

Summary

CVECVE-2023-2612
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-05-31 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-22 15:15:00 UTC
DescriptionJean-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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-667

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 22.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 22.10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0095-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
USN-6122-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
USN-6123-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
CVE-2023-2612 | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
USN-6127-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/kinetic - [no description] MISC git.launchpad.net
USN-6124-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199374 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6122-1)
  • 199375 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6123-1)
  • 199380 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6124-1)
  • 199382 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6127-1)
  • 199384 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6132-1)
  • 199386 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6131-1)
  • 199390 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure CVM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6135-1)
  • 199406 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6150-1)
  • 199413 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6162-1)
  • 199422 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6175-1)
  • 199437 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6186-1)
  • 199465 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) Vulnerabilities (USN-6222-1)
  • 199614 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IoT) Vulnerabilities (USN-6256-1)
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