Bug 1211902 (CVE-2023-2612) - VUL-0: CVE-2023-2612: kernel: shiftfs: race condition in inode locking
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-2612: kernel: shiftfs: race condition in inode locking
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: CVE-2023-2612
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/367948/
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Reported: 2023-06-01 09:24 UTC by Gabriele Sonnu
Modified: 2023-06-01 09:24 UTC (History)
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Description Gabriele Sonnu 2023-06-01 09:24:29 UTC 
Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux
kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some
situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel
deadlock).

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-2612
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-2612
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/kinetic/commit/?id=02b47547824b1cd0d55c6744f91886f04de8947e
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2612
Comment 1 Gabriele Sonnu 2023-06-01 09:24:51 UTC 
Not shipped, closing.