There is a logic error in io_uring's implementation which can be used to trigger a use-after-free vulnerability leading to privilege escalation.
In the io_prep_async_work function the assumption that the last io_grab_identity call cannot return false is not true, and in this case the function will use the init_cred or the previous linked requests identity to do operations instead of using the current identity. This can lead to reference counting issues causing use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past version 5.10.161.
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"cna_assigner": "Google",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-416"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/0xxx/CVE-2023-0240.json"
}