vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2023-4244: ELSA-2023-13043: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 28, 2023
Added
Dec 14, 2023
Modified
Jul 21, 2025

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's netfilter: nf_tables component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation.
Due to a race condition between nf_tables netlink control plane transaction and nft_set element garbage collection, it is possible to underflow the reference counter causing a use-after-free vulnerability.
We recommend upgrading past commit 3e91b0ebd994635df2346353322ac51ce84ce6d8.
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s nftables sub-component due to a race problem between the set GC and transaction in the Linux Kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system due to a missing call to `nft_set_elem_mark_busy`, causing double deactivation of the element and possibly leading to a kernel information leak problem.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-kerneloracle-linux-upgrade-kernel-uek
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