🛡️ CVE-2023-5178
🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
8.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in drivers/nvme/target/tcp.c` in `nvmet_tcp_free_crypto` due to a logical bug in the NVMe/TCP subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a malicious user to cause a use-after-free and double-free problem, which may permit remote code execution or lead to local privilege escalation.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-11-01
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2026-03-24

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager — —
enterprise-linux — —
linux-kernel 6.2 6.5.9
solidfire-\&-hci-management-node — —
solidfire-\&-hci-storage-node — —

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/[email protected]/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241924
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nvme/[email protected]/

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