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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6817: kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2023-6817: kernel: inactive elements in nft_pipapo_walk (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/18/2023
Created
02/09/2024
Added
02/08/2024
Modified
03/20/2024

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The function nft_pipapo_walk did not skip inactive elements during set walk which could lead double deactivations of PIPAPO (Pile Packet Policies) elements, leading to use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past commit 317eb9685095678f2c9f5a8189de698c5354316a.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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