CVE-2023-3159

A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outboundphypacketcallback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queueevent() fails.

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-416"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/3xxx/CVE-2023-3159.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Events

Introduced

c5eb0a61238dd6faf37f58c9ce61c9980aaffd7a

Last affected

c5eb0a61238dd6faf37f58c9ce61c9980aaffd7a

Database specific

{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.*

Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6

v5.*

v5.18-rc6

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-3159.json"