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CVE-2023-2612

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situatio…

Impact

Jean-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).

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 20.04, 22.04, 22.10

Weakness classification

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