CVE-2023-23586CWE-416

Use after free in io_uring in the Linux Kernel

Medium · published February 17, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Due to a vulnerability in the io_uring subsystem, it is possible to leak kernel memory information to the user process. timens_install calls current_is_single_threaded to determine if the current process is single-threaded, but this call does not consider io_uring's io_worker threads, thus it is possible to insert a time namespace's vvar page to process's memory space via a page fault. When this time namespace is destroyed, the vvar page is also freed, but not removed from the process' memory, and a next page allocated by the kernel will be still available from the user-space process and can leak memory contents via this (read-only) use-after-free vulnerability. We recommend upgrading past version 5.10.161 or commit  788d0824269bef539fe31a785b1517882eafed93 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/io_uring

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00268 · 17.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-416 · Use After Free
Published
2023-02-17T12:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 FEB 12:25Z
    Use after free in io_uring in the Linux Kernel
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