Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-4207: ELSA-2023-13019: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)
Description
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. When fw_change() is called on an existing filter, the whole tcf_result struct is always copied into the new instance of the filter. This causes a problem when updating a filter bound to a class, as tcf_unbind_filter() is always called on the old instance in the success path, decreasing filter_cnt of the still referenced class and allowing it to be deleted, leading to a use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past commit 76e42ae831991c828cffa8c37736ebfb831ad5ec. There are 3 CVEs for the use-after-free flaw found in net/sched/cls_fw.c in classifiers (cls_fw, cls_u32, and cls_route) in the Linux Kernel: CVE-2023-4206, CVE-2023-4207, CVE-2023-4208. A local user could use any of these flaws to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system. Similar CVE-2023-4128 was rejected as a duplicate.
Solution(s)
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