CVE-2023-6039 Information

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in lan78xx_disconnect in drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c in the network sub-component net/usb/lan78xx in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system when the LAN78XX USB device detaches.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6039 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248755 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1e7417c188d0a83fb385ba2dbe35fd2563f2b6f3