| Name | CVE-2023-1829 |
| Description | 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 the underlying structure which can later lead to double freeing the structure. A local attacker user can use this vulnerability to elevate its privileges to root.
We recommend upgrading past commit 8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28.
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| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3403-1, DLA-3404-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 4.19.289-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.197-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.191-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.64-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.52-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.5.13-1 | fixed |
| linux-5.10 (PTS) | buster (security) | 5.10.197-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/11/3
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-23-898/
https://git.kernel.org/linus/8c710f75256bb3cf05ac7b1672c82b92c43f3d28 (6.3-rc1)