🛡️ CVE-2023-1838
🟠 CVSS 7.1 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
7.1
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A use-after-free flaw was found in vhost_net_set_backend in drivers/vhost/net.c in virtio network subcomponent in the Linux kernel due to a double fget. This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system, and could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.1
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-04-05
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
h300s
h410c
h410s
h500s
h700s
linux-kernel 5.16 5.17.10

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