Bug 2215841 (CVE-2023-35829) - CVE-2023-35829 kernel: rkvdec: race condition leading to use-after-free in rkvdec_remove()
Summary: CVE-2023-35829 kernel: rkvdec: race condition leading to use-after-free in rk...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2023-35829
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2186164
Blocks: 2215849
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Reported: 2023-06-19 06:19 UTC by TEJ RATHI
Modified: 2023-06-28 11:11 UTC (History)
45 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 6.4-rc1
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A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's rkvdec driver when removing the module before cleanup in the rkvdec_remove function. This can result in a use-after-free issue, possibly leading to a system crash or other undefined behaviors.
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Last Closed: 2023-06-19 21:26:55 UTC
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Description TEJ RATHI 2023-06-19 06:19:06 UTC 
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.2. A use-after-free was found in rkvdec_remove in drivers/staging/media/rkvdec/rkvdec.c.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230307173900.1299387-1-zyytlz.wz@163.com/T/
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3228cec23b8b29215e18090c6ba635840190993d
https://lore.kernel.org/all/a4dafa22-3ee3-dbe1-fd50-fee07883ce1a@xs4all.nl/
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.2
Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2023-06-20 08:47:16 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2186164]
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