CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-28466

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 16, 2023 | Modified: Nov 09, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

do_tls_getsockopt in net/tls/tls_main.c in the Linux kernel through 6.2.6 lacks a lock_sock call, leading to a race condition (with a resultant use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference).

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 4.13 (including) 5.4.240 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.5 (including) 5.10.177 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.11 (including) 5.15.105 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.16 (including) 6.1.20 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 6.2 (including) 6.2.7 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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