CVE-2023-3159

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-3159
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-06-12 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-20 20:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.

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 Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 - All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc5 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
firewire: fix potential uaf in outbound_phy_packet_callback() · torvalds/linux@b7c81f8 · 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

  • 160766 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12566)
  • 160767 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12565)
  • 161237 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-13043)
  • 181843 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-3159)
  • 199617 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6254-1)
  • 199775 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6341-1)
  • 379435 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2024:0012)
  • 390285 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2023-0017)
  • 390286 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2023-0018)
  • 673272 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2584)
  • 673604 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2811)
  • 754160 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2808-1)
  • 754167 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2822-1)
  • 754168 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2830-1)
  • 754170 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2834-1)
  • 754183 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2859-1)
  • 907003 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27182-1)
  • 907036 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27180-1)
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