CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability

This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Remediation Deadline: Apr 20, 2023

High

CISA KEV

CVE-2023-0266

Linux—Kernel

Linux kernel contains a use-after-free vulnerability that allows for privilege escalation to gain ring0 access from the system user.

Required Action

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/queue-5.10/alsa-pcm-move-rwsem-lock-inside-snd_ctl_elem_read-to-prevent-uaf.patch?id=72783cf35e6c55bca84c4bb7b776c58152856fd4; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0266

Vulnerability Overview

Severity: High
CISA KEV: Yes
Ransomware: Unknown
Published: Mar 30, 2023
KEV Added: Mar 30, 2023
Due Date: Apr 20, 2023
Related Articles: 0

Vendor

Linux

Kernel