vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-2235: Important: kpatch-patch security update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2023-05-01
Added
2023-06-22
Modified
2025-01-28

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel Performance Events system can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.

The perf_group_detach function did not check the event's siblings' attach_state before calling add_event_to_groups(), but remove_on_exec made it possible to call list_del_event() on before detaching from their group, making it possible to use a dangling pointer causing a use-after-free vulnerability.

We recommend upgrading past commit fd0815f632c24878e325821943edccc7fde947a2.

Solution(s)

centos-upgrade-kernelcentos-upgrade-kernel-rtcentos-upgrade-kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_11_1centos-upgrade-kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_11_1-debuginfocentos-upgrade-kpatch-patch-5_14_0-284_11_1-debugsource
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