Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4387 - Use After Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all, which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8267
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4387
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4387
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219270
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219270
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e7fef9521e73ca8afd7da9e58c14654b02dfad8
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e7fef9521e73ca8afd7da9e58c14654b02dfad8