CVE-2023-6039

Se encontró una falla de use-after-free en lan78xx_disconnect en drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c en el subcomponente de red, net/usb/lan78xx en el kernel de Linux. Esta falla permite que un atacante local bloquee el sistema cuando el dispositivo USB LAN78XX se desconecta.

It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Lin Ma discovered that the Netlink Transformation subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly initialize a policy data structure, leading to an out-of-bounds vulnerability. A local privileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly expose sensitive information.