# CVE-2023-37454: An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.4.2.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-06 · Updated: 2024-11-20

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.4.2. A crafted UDF filesystem image causes a use-after-free write operation in the udf_put_super and udf_close_lvid functions in fs/udf/super.c. NOTE: the suse.com reference has a different perspective about this.

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## References

- https://lore.kernel.org/all/00000000000056e02f05dfb6e11a%40google.com/T/
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=60864ed35b1073540d57
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=61564e5023b7229ec85d
- https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=26873a72980f8fa8bc55
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2023-37454
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6f861765464f43a71462d52026fbddfc858239a5

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