vulnerability

CentOS Linux: CVE-2023-40283: Important: kernel security update (CESA-2024:0461)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 14, 2023
Added
Jan 26, 2024
Modified
Jan 28, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in l2cap_sock_release in net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c in the Linux kernel before 6.4.10. There is a use-after-free because the children of an sk are mishandled.

Solution

centos-upgrade-kernel
Title
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