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Alma Linux: CVE-2023-3212: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2023-7077)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jun 23, 2023
Added
Nov 28, 2023
Modified
Apr 17, 2026

Description

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the gfs2 file system in the Linux kernel. It occurs on corrupt gfs2 file systems when the evict code tries to reference the journal descriptor structure after it has been freed and set to NULL. A privileged local user could use this flaw to cause a kernel panic.

Solutions

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