CVE-2023-2612 (GCVE-0-2023-2612)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-05-30 23:12
Modified
2025-02-13 16:44
CWE
Summary
Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).
References
security@ubuntu.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173087/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0095-1.html
security@ubuntu.com https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/kinetic/commit/?id=02b47547824b1cd0d55c6744f91886f04de8947e Mailing List, Patch
security@ubuntu.com https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2612 Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.com https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6122-1 Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.com https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6123-1 Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.com https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6124-1 Vendor Advisory
security@ubuntu.com https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6127-1 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173087/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0095-1.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/kinetic/commit/?id=02b47547824b1cd0d55c6744f91886f04de8947e Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2612 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6122-1 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6123-1 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6124-1 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6127-1 Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Show details on NVD website


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