CVE-2023-0030

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s nouveau driver in how a user triggers a memory overflow that causes the nvkm_vma_tail function to fail. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157270
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/729eba3355674f2d9524629b73683ba1d1cd3f10
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0010/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157270
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/729eba3355674f2d9524629b73683ba1d1cd3f10
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230413-0010/
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2157270