CVE-2023-4623

A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s net/sched: sch_hfsc (HFSC qdisc traffic control) component that can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. If a class with a link-sharing curve, for example, with the HFSC_FSC flag set, has a parent without a link-sharing curve, then init_vf() will call vttree_insert() on the parent, but vttree_remove() will be skipped in update_vf(). This leaves a dangling pointer that can cause a use-after-free issue.

Mitigation

To mitigate this issue, prevent the module sch_hfsc from being loaded by blacklisting the module to prevent it from loading automatically.

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