Security Advisory
CVE-2023-1838
7.1
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.
Published Date
April 5, 2023
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory