CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-5972
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the nft_inner.c functionality of netfilter in the Linux kernel. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2.1 <= 6.5.10)
• linux linux kernel 6.2
• linux linux kernel 6.2.0
• linux linux kernel 6.6
• fedoraproject fedora 39
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7 Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80 Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7 Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80 Patch