CVE-2023-4611

Summary

CVE-2023-4611 is a use-after-free vulnerability identified in the memory management subsystem of the Linux Kernel, specifically in mm/mempolicy.c. This issue arises from a race condition between mbind() and VMA-locked page faults. A local attacker can exploit this flaw to cause a system crash or potentially obtain sensitive kernel information.

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