Microsoft security update for CVE-2023-6531
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products4
- azl3 kernel 6.6.35.1-4 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 kernel 6.6.92.2-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.148.2-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 kernel 5.15.180.1-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 5.15.148.2-2 |
| — | Security Update | 6.6.35.1-4 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2023-6531
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.0 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
A use-after-free flaw was found in the Linux Kernel due to a race problem in the unix garbage collector's deletion of SKB races with unix_stream_read_generic() on the socket that the SKB is queued on.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2023-6531, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).