UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3159

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-3159

    Published: 12 Jun 2023Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-3159

    Summary:

    Details: A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-3159, https://git.kernel.org/linus/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ff, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ff, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6254-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6341-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-3159

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty%2Fesm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-193.244

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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