What the vulnerability does

01Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 5, 2023 CVE published
August 2, 2024 Record updated