CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-2166

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-04-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-04-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

A null pointer dereference issue was found in can protocol in net/can/af_can.c in the Linux before Linux. ml_priv may not be initialized in the receive path of CAN frames. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 6.1) • linux linux kernel 6.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References