CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-0458

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2023-04-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-04-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

A speculative pointer dereference problem exists in the Linux Kernel on the do_prlimit() function. The resource argument value is controlled and is used in pointer arithmetic for the 'rlim' variable and can be used to leak the contents. We recommend upgrading past version 6.1.8 or commit 739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.1.8) • linux linux kernel 6.2 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References