CVE-2023-5633 (GCVE-0-2023-5633)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-23 21:58
Modified
2026-02-25 18:18
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-911 - Improper Update of Reference Count
Summary
The reference count changes made as part of the CVE-2023-33951 and CVE-2023-33952 fixes exposed a use-after-free flaw in the way memory objects were handled when they were being used to store a surface. When running inside a VMware guest with 3D acceleration enabled, a local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges.
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0113 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0134 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0461 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1404 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4823 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4831 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5633 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245663 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-513.11.1.rt7.313.el8_9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-513.11.1.el8_9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-477.51.1.el8_8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-284.75.1.el9_2   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-284.75.1.rt14.360.el9_2   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::nfv
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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