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Medium 5.3
It was discovered that a nft object or expression could reference a nft set on a different nft table, leading to a use-…
KEV Jun 26, 2024 -
High 7.0CVE-2023-6546 Public exploit
Kernel: gsm multiplexing race condition leads to privilege escalation
A race condition was found in the GSM 0710 tty multiplexor in the Linux kernel. This issue occurs when two threads execute the GSMIOC_SETCONF ioctl on the same tty file descriptor with the gsm line discipline enabled, and can lead to a use-after-free problem …
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High 7.8CVE-2023-6931 Public exploit
Out-of-bounds write in Linux kernel's Performance Events system component
A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Performance Events system component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. A perf_event's read_size can overflow, leading to an heap out-of-bounds increment or write in perf_read_…
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Medium 5.4CVE-2023-6710 Public exploit
Mod_cluster/mod_proxy_cluster: stored cross site scripting
A flaw was found in the mod_proxy_cluster in the Apache server. This issue may allow a malicious user to add a script in the 'alias' parameter in the URL to trigger the stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. By adding a script on the alias parameter…
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High 8.8CVE-2023-5178 Public exploit
Kernel: use after free in nvmet_tcp_free_crypto in nvme
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c` in `nvmet_tcp_free_crypto` due to a logical bug in the NVMe/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a malicious user to cause a use-after-free and double-free problem, whic…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-5717 Public exploit
Out-of-bounds write in Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component
A heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the Linux kernel's Linux Kernel Performance Events (perf) component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If perf_read_group() is called while an event's sibling_list is smaller than its child's si…
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Medium 5.5CVE-2023-43786 Public exploit
Libx11: stack exhaustion from infinite recursion in putsubimage()
A vulnerability was found in libX11 due to an infinite loop within the PutSubImage() function. This flaw allows a local user to consume all available system resources and cause a denial of service condition.
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High 7.8
Glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binar…
KEV Nov 21, 2023 -
High 7.5CVE-2022-4244 Public exploit
Codehaus-plexus: directory traversal
A flaw was found in codeplex-codehaus. A directory traversal attack (also known as path traversal) aims to access files and directories stored outside the intended folder. By manipulating files with "dot-dot-slash (../)" sequences and their variations or by u…
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Critical 10.0CVE-2023-2163 Public exploit
Incorrect Verifier Branch Pruning Logic Leads To Arbitrary Read/Write In Linux Kernel and Lateral Privilege Escalation
Incorrect verifier pruning in BPF in Linux Kernel >=5.4 leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe, resulting in arbitrary read/write in kernel memory, lateral privilege escalation, and container escape.
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Medium 5.9CVE-2023-4813 Public exploit
Glibc: potential use-after-free in gaih_inet()
A flaw has been identified in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-4622 Public exploit
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's af_unix component
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-4147 Public exploit
Kernel: netfilter: nf_tables_newrule when adding a rule with nfta_rule_chain_id leads to use-after-free
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s Netfilter functionality when adding a rule with NFTA_RULE_CHAIN_ID. This flaw allows a local user to crash or escalate their privileges on the system.
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High 7.0CVE-2023-3640 Public exploit
Kernel: x86/mm: a per-cpu entry area leak was identified through the init_cea_offsets function when prefetchnta and prefetcht2 instructions being used for the per-cpu entry area mapping to the user space
A possible unauthorized memory access flaw was found in the Linux kernel's cpu_entry_area mapping of X86 CPU data to memory, where a user may guess the location of exception stacks or other important data. Based on the previous CVE-2023-0597, the 'Randomize p…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-3776 Public exploit
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_fw component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If tcf_change_indev() fails, fw_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the refere…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-3609 Public exploit
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: cls_u32 component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If tcf_change_indev() fails, u32_set_parms() will immediately return an error after incrementing or decrementing the refe…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-3269 Public exploit
Distros-[dirtyvma] privilege escalation via non-rcu-protected vma traversal
A vulnerability exists in the memory management subsystem of the Linux kernel. The lock handling for accessing and updating virtual memory areas (VMAs) is incorrect, leading to use-after-free problems. This issue can be successfully exploited to execute arbit…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-35001 Public exploit
Linux Kernel nftables Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write Vulnerability
Linux Kernel nftables Out-Of-Bounds Read/Write Vulnerability; nft_byteorder poorly handled vm register contents when CAP_NET_ADMIN is in any user or network namespace
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Medium 6.5CVE-2023-3338 Public exploit
Crash due to a null pointer dereference in the dn_nsp_send function
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DECnet networking protocol. This issue could allow a remote user to crash the system.
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High 7.8CVE-2023-3390 Public exploit
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem
A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's netfilter subsystem in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c. Mishandled error handling with NFT_MSG_NEWRULE makes it possible to use a dangling pointer in the same transaction causing a use-after-free vu…
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Medium 4.7CVE-2023-0045 Public exploit
Incorrect indirect branch prediction barrier in the Linux Kernel
The current implementation of the prctl syscall does not issue an IBPB immediately during the syscall. The ib_prctl_set function updates the Thread Information Flags (TIFs) for the task and updates the SPEC_CTRL MSR on the function __speculation_ctrl_update,…
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Medium 5.6CVE-2023-1998 Public exploit
Spectre v2 SMT mitigations problem in Linux kernel
The Linux kernel allows userspace processes to enable mitigations by calling prctl with PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL which disables the speculation feature as well as by using seccomp. We had noticed that on VMs of at least one major cloud provider, the kernel sti…
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High 8.2CVE-2023-2008 Public exploit
Kernel: udmabuf: improper validation of array index leading to local privilege escalation
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's udmabuf device driver, within a fault handler. This issue occurs due to the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in memory access past the end of an array. This may allow an attacker to escal…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-1829 Public exploit
Use-after-free in tcindex (traffic control index filter) in the Linux Kernel
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The tcindex_delete function which does not properly deactivate filters in case of a perfect hashes while deleting…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-1281 Public exploit
UAF in Linux kernel's tcindex (traffic control index filter) implementation
Use After Free vulnerability in Linux kernel traffic control index filter (tcindex) allows Privilege Escalation. The imperfect hash area can be updated while packets are traversing, which will cause a use-after-free when 'tcf_exts_exec()' is called with the d…
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High 7.8CVE-2023-0461 Public exploit
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
There is a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux Kernel which can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. To reach the vulnerability kernel configuration flag CONFIG_TLS or CONFIG_XFRM_ESPINTCP has to be configured, but the operation does not …
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High 7.9
Use after free in SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM in Linux Kernel
A use after free vulnerability exists in the ALSA PCM package in the Linux Kernel. SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_{READ|WRITE}32 is missing locks that can be used in a use-after-free that can result in a priviledge escalation to gain ring0 access from the system user. …
KEV Mar 30, 2023 -
Medium 5.5CVE-2022-4543 Public exploit
A flaw named "EntryBleed" was found in the Linux Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI). This issue could allow a local att…
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High 8.0CVE-2022-42896 Public exploit
Info Leak in l2cap_core in the Linux Kernel
There are use-after-free vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel's net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c's l2cap_connect and l2cap_le_connect_req functions which may allow code execution and leaking kernel memory (respectively) remotely via Bluetooth. A remote attacker coul…
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High 7.8CVE-2022-3910 Public exploit
Use after free in IO_uring in the Linux Kernel
Use After Free vulnerability in Linux Kernel allows Privilege Escalation. An improper Update of Reference Count in io_uring leads to Use-After-Free and Local Privilege Escalation. When io_msg_ring was invoked with a fixed file, it called io_fput_file() which …
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Medium 5.5CVE-2022-3564 Public exploit
Linux Kernel Bluetooth l2cap_core.c l2cap_reassemble_sdu use after free
A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel. Affected by this vulnerability is the function l2cap_reassemble_sdu of the file net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c of the component Bluetooth. The manipulation leads to use after free. It is recommende…
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Unscored —CVE-2022-2590 Public exploit
A race condition was found in the way the Linux kernel's memory subsystem handled the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of p…
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High 7.8CVE-2022-29581 Public exploit
Improper Update of Reference Count vulnerability in net/sched of Linux Kernel allows local attacker to cause privilege …
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High 8.3
Heap Out-Of-Bounds Write in Netfilter IP6T_SO_SET_REPLACE
A heap out-of-bounds write affecting Linux since v2.6.19-rc1 was discovered in net/netfilter/x_tables.c. This allows an attacker to gain privileges or cause a DoS (via heap memory corruption) through user name space
KEV Oct 6, 2025 -
Unscored —
SSL Network Extender Client for Linux before build 800008302 reveals part of the contents of the configuration file sup…
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High 7.8
Linux kernel eBPF bitwise ops ALU32 bounds tracking
The eBPF ALU32 bounds tracking for bitwise ops (AND, OR and XOR) in the Linux kernel did not properly update 32-bit bounds, which could be turned into out of bounds reads and writes in the Linux kernel and therefore, arbitrary code execution. This issue was f…
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Unscored —CVE-2020-27815 Public exploit
A flaw was found in the JFS filesystem code in the Linux Kernel which allows a local attacker with the ability to set e…
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High 8.8CVE-2021-31440 Public exploit
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Linux Kernel 5.11.15. An …
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High 8.8CVE-2021-3492 Public exploit
Ubuntu linux kernel shiftfs file system double free vulnerability
Shiftfs, an out-of-tree stacking file system included in Ubuntu Linux kernels, did not properly handle faults occurring during copy_from_user() correctly. These could lead to either a double-free situation or memory not being freed at all. An attacker could u…
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High 8.8
The overlayfs implementation in the linux kernel did not properly validate with respect to user namespaces the setting …
KEV Oct 20, 2022