Bug 2174866 (CVE-2023-23039) - CVE-2023-23039 kernel: tty: vcc: race condition leading to use-after-free in vcc_open()
Summary: CVE-2023-23039 kernel: tty: vcc: race condition leading to use-after-free in ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2023-23039
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2174867
Blocks: 2172634
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Reported: 2023-03-02 14:18 UTC by Mauro Matteo Cascella
Modified: 2023-03-15 12:35 UTC (History)
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A race condition leading to a use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's Sun Virtual Console Concentrator (VCC). This issue can result in a system crash or potential code execution if a physically proximate attacker removes a VCC device while calling open().
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Last Closed: 2023-03-02 14:20:31 UTC
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Description Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-03-02 14:18:31 UTC 
A race condition leading to use-after-free may occur if the user physically removes the vcc device while calling open().

Upstream patch (not yet merged upstream):
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230102010528.2868403-1-yoochan1026@gmail.com/
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-03-02 14:18:58 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2174867]
Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2023-03-14 19:00:08 UTC 
This is not enabled on Fedora kernels.
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