CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-21228

Published: Dec 04, 2023 | Modified: Dec 22, 2023

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-21228
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/.html

In PMRChangeSparseMemOSMem of physmem_osmem_linux.c, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege in the kernel with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Android	Google	- (including)	- (including)

References

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2023-12-01

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