A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_
A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all, which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | 0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | 0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unspecified |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.