CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-52340
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The IPv6 implementation in the Linux kernel before 6.3 has a net/ipv6/route.c max_size threshold that can be consumed easily, e.g., leading to a denial of service (network is unreachable errors) when IPv6 packets are sent in a loop via a raw socket.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=af6d10345ca76670c1b7c37799f0d5576ccef277 Mailing List, Patch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=af6d10345ca76670c1b7c37799f0d5576ccef277 Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0005/ security.netapp.com