CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6040
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-01-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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
- 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-125
Description
An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.16 < 4.19.305)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.267)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.208)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.147)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.18)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory