medium6.3
CVE-2023-1855
A use-after-free flaw was found in xgene_hwmon_remove in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c in the Hardware Monitoring Linux Kernel Driver (xgene-hwmon).
Impact
A use-after-free flaw was found in xgene_hwmon_remove in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c in the Hardware Monitoring Linux Kernel Driver (xgene-hwmon). This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a race problem. This vulnerability could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | before 6.3 from 4.9 before 4.14.311 from 4.15 before 4.19.279 from 4.20 before 5.4.238 from 5.5 before 5.10.176 from 5.11 before 5.15.104 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 10.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cb090e64cf25602b9adaf32d5dfc9c8bec493cd1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318122758.2140868-1-linux%40roeck-us.net/
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/cb090e64cf25602b9adaf32d5dfc9c8bec493cd1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
- https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230318122758.2140868-1-linux%40roeck-us.net/