A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, where accessing a deallocated instance in printer_ioctl() printer_ioctl() tries to access of a printer_dev instance. However, use-after-free arises because it had been freed by gprinter_free().
The code transmits data to another actor, but a portion of the data includes sensitive information that should not be accessible to that actor.
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e8d5f92b8d30bb4ade76494490c3c065e12411b1 | mailing list patch vendor advisory |