CVE-2023-1838

EPSS 0.3%CWE-416

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.3%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

05 Apr 2023Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Affected products

n/a · Kernel

References

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220516084213.26854-1-jasowang%40redhat.com/T/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0003/