Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52879

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - tracing: Have traceeventfile have ref counters The following can crash the kernel: cd /sys/kernel/tracing echo 'p:sched schedule' kprobeevents exec...

BELL-CVE-2023-52879

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CVE-2023-52879

CVE-2023-52879 describes a Linux kernel vulnerability in tracing, specifically adding ref counters to trace_event_file to prevent use-after-free when a kprobe event is deleted while its tracefs file is still open. The issue can cause a kernel NULL pointer dereference and crash (local privilege no...