CVE-2023-1382

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-04-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

A data race flaw was found in the Linux kernel, between where con is allocated and con->sock is set. This issue leads to a NULL pointer dereference when accessing con->sock->sk in net/tipc/topsrv.c in the tipc protocol in the Linux kernel.

Affected products

Linux kernel: before 6.1; 6.1-rc1, 6.1-rc2, 6.1-rc3, 6.1-rc4, 6.1-rc5, 6.1-rc6 — fixed in 6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/bc7bd3183f1c275c820690fc65b708238fe9e38e.1668807842.git.lucien.xin%40gmail.com/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/bc7bd3183f1c275c820690fc65b708238fe9e38e.1668807842.git.lucien.xin%40gmail.com/T/#u

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