CVE-2023-4622: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's af_unix component can be exploited to achieve local privilege escalation. The unix_stream_sendpage() function tries to add data to the last skb in the peer's recv queue without locking the queue. Thus there is a race where unix_stream_sendpage() could access an skb locklessly that is being released by garbage collection, resulting in use-after-free. We recommend upgrading past commit 790c2f9d15b594350ae9bca7b236f2b1859de02c (or backported equivalents).

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only; version 12.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.2, before 4.14.324 (fixed in 4.14.324); from 4.15, before 4.19.293 (fixed in 4.19.293); from 4.20, before 5.4.255 (fixed in 5.4.255); from 5.5, before 5.10.192 (fixed in 5.10.192); from 5.11, before 5.15.128 (fixed in 5.15.128); from 5.16, before 6.1.47 (fixed in 6.1.47); …

Published 2023-09-06. Last modified 2026-09-17.