CVE-2023-1206CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2023-1206

Medium · published July 1, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6 connections up to 95%.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00630 · 49.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2023-07-01T02:15Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 6.56.5
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
fedoraproject/fedoraall versions—
References (16)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUN 00:00Z
    A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack
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