CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-2177

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-04-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-04-20
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 the sctp network protocol in net/sctp/stream_sched.c in Linux Kernel. If stream_in allocation is failed, stream_out is freed which would further be accessed. A local user could use this flaw to crash the system or potentially cause a denial of service.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.19) • linux linux kernel 5.19

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References