CVE-2023-45863: Linux Kernel

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

An issue was discovered in lib/kobject.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.3. With root access, an attacker can trigger a race condition that results in a fill_kobj_path out-of-bounds write.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.2.3 (fixed in 6.2.3)

Published 2023-10-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.