CVE-2023-4921
Use-after-free in Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.4%
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's net/sched: sch_qfq component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. When the plug qdisc is used as a class of the qfq qdisc, sending network packets triggers use-after-free in qfq_dequeue() due to the incorrect .peek handler of sch_plug and lack of error checking in agg_dequeue(). We recommend upgrading past commit 8fc134fee27f2263988ae38920bc03da416b03d8.
- Affected
- Linux · Kernel
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 35th percentile
- Published
- 2023-09-12
- Updated
- 2026-10-14
Exploit collections (1)
- linux/kernelctf/CVE-2023-4921_lts_cos_mitigationgoogle/security-research
Security advisories
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8fc134fee27…
- https://kernel.dance/8fc134fee27f2263988ae38920bc03da416b03d8
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00004.html