CVE-2023-3212 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/504a10d9e46bc37b23d0a1ae2f28973c8516e636 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214348