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CVE-2023-1855

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.3)—

A use-after-free flaw was found in xgene_hwmon_remove in drivers/hwmon/xgene-hwmon.c in the Hardware Monitoring Linux Kernel Driver (xgene-hwmon). This flaw could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a race problem. This vulnerability could even lead to a kernel information leak problem.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (2)

Debian — Debian LinuxLinux — Linux Kernel

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