CVE-2023-1382: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con->sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con->sock->sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1 (fixed in 6.1); version 6.1 only

Published 2023-04-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.