CVE-2023-3397

Summary

CVECVE-2023-3397
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-11-01 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-09 15:09:00 UTC
DescriptionA race condition occurred between the functions lmLogClose and txEnd in JFS, in the Linux Kernel, executed in different threads. This flaw allows a local attacker with normal user privileges to crash the system or leak internal kernel information.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
2217271 – (CVE-2023-3397) CVE-2023-3397 kernel: slab-use-after-free Write in txEnd due to race condition MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
[PATCH] fs/jfs: Add a mutex named txEnd_lmLogClose_mutex to prevent a race condition between txEnd and lmLogClose functions — Linux Kernel MISC www.spinics.net
cve-details MISC access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 356736 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2-2023-2340
  • 356744 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2023-1883
  • 356874 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2023-056
  • 356887 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-043
  • 6140019 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-r7gg-6g8h-2h2x)
  • 6140190 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-r7gg-6g8h-2h2x)
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