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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.4 Medium

CVE-2023-2612

shiftfs lock unbalance in Ubuntu-specific kernels

Description

Jean-Baptiste Cayrou discovered that the shiftfs file system in the Ubuntu Linux kernel contained a race condition when handling inode locking in some situations. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (kernel deadlock).

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Canonical Ltd. ubuntu-linux

  • 0 to < 02b47547824b1cd0d55c6744f91886f04de8947eaffected

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