CVE-2023-1838 Information

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Reference

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20220516084213.26854-1-jasowang@redhat.com/T/