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Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-3609: ELSA-2023-5622: kernel security and bug fix update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 21, 2023
Added
Oct 11, 2023
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
If tcf_change_indev() fails, u32_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the reference counter in tcf_bind_filter(). If an attacker can control the reference counter and set it to zero, they can cause the reference to be freed, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability.
We recommend upgrading past commit 04c55383fa5689357bcdd2c8036725a55ed632bc.
A double-free flaw was found in u32_set_parms in net/sched/cls_u32.c in the Network Scheduler component in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker to use a failure event to mishandle the reference counter, leading to a local privilege escalation threat.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
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