CVE-2023-23586

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Cuando se destruye este espacio de nombres de tiempo, la p\u00e1gina vvar tambi\u00e9n se libera, pero no se elimina de la memoria del proceso, y una p\u00e1gina siguiente asignada por el kernel todav\u00eda estar\u00e1 disponible en el proceso de espacio de usuario y puede filtrar el contenido de la memoria a trav\u00e9s de esto (leer -solo) vulnerabilidad de Use-After-Free. 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