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CVE-2023-2236

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2023-05-01 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel io_uring subsystem can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. Both io_install_fixed_file and its callers call fput in a file in case of an error, causing a reference underflow which leads to a use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past commit 9d94c04c0db024922e886c9fd429659f22f48ea4.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelNetapp Hci Baseboard Management Controller

Weakness Type

CWE-416, CWE-416

References