CVE-2023-33203: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Linux kernel before 6.2.9 has a race condition and resultant use-after-free in drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/emac/emac.c if a physically proximate attacker unplugs an emac based device.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.2.9 (fixed in 6.2.9)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2023-05-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.