CVE-2023-23039 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.2.0-rc2. drivers/tty/vcc.c has a race condition and resultant use-after-free if a physically proximate attacker removes a VCC device while calling open(), aka a race condition between vcc_open() and vcc_remove().

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Physical

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2.0:rc1::::::
	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2.0:rc2::::::

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/1/1/169
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23039
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23039

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00018}`	epss `{'score': 0.00019}`

Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-22T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-20T20:46:39.451Z

Reserved: 2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-23039

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:28:40.616Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-22T17:15:11.997

Modified: 2025-03-20T21:15:17.850

Link: CVE-2023-23039

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-23039 - Bugzilla

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