CVE-2023-4387 Information

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware’s vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4387 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219270 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e7fef9521e73ca8afd7da9e58c14654b02dfad8