CVE-2023-4208

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This causes a problem when updating a filter bound to a class, as tcf_unbind_filter() is always called on the old instance in the success path, decreasing filter_cnt of the still referenced class and allowing it to be deleted, leading to a use-after-free.\n\nWe recommend upgrading past commit 3044b16e7c6fe5d24b1cdbcf1bd0a9d92d1ebd81."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Una vulnerabilidad de Use After Free en el componente net/sched: cls_u32 del kernel de Linux puede ser explotada para conseguir una escalada local de privilegios. Cuando se llama a u32_change() en un filtro existente, toda la estructura tcf_result se copia siempre en la nueva instancia del filtro. Esto causa un problema cuando se actualiza un filtro vinculado a una clase, ya que tcf_unbind_filter() siempre llama a la instancia antigua en la ruta de \u00e9xito, disminuyendo filter_cnt de la clase a\u00fan referenciada y permitiendo que se elimine, lo que lleva a un Use After Free. 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