CVE-2023-4459CWE-476

CVE-2023-4459

Medium · published August 21, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
15.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00249 · 15.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2023-08-21T23:15Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel< 5.185.18
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
redhat/enterprise_linuxall versions—
References (20)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccd · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008 · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459 · [email protected]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268 · [email protected]https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccd · [email protected]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 AUG 18:49Z
    Kernel: vmxnet3: null pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup()
    cvelistv5