CVSS 3.1
7.0 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2023-1476
High (7.0). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s mm/mremap memory address space accounting source code. This issue occurs due to a race condition between rmap walk and mremap, allowing a local user to crash the system or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-416
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:enterprise_linux_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian
- redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1659
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1476
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2176035
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=97113eb39fa7972722ff490b947d8af023e1f6a2
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1659