CVE-2023-52931

A flaw was found in the drm/i915 component of the Linux kernel. This vulnerability arises from a race condition where a virtual machine (VM) object is exposed to userspace before a necessary reference is acquired. A local attacker could exploit this timing issue to trigger a use-after-free error, potentially leading to a denial of service or privilege escalation.

Red Hat has stack protection mechanisms in place, such as FORTIFY_SOURCE, Position Independent Executables or Stack Smashing Protection.

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