CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6622
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2023-12-08
- 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 ([email protected])
- 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 vulnerability was found in nft_dynset_init() in net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c in nf_tables in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN user privilege to trigger a denial of service.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 38
• fedoraproject fedora 39
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 <= 6.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.7
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6622 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253632 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3701cd390fd731ee7ae8b8006246c8db82c72bea Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6622 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253632 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3701cd390fd731ee7ae8b8006246c8db82c72bea Patch
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/AAOVK2F3ALGKYIQ5IOMAYEC2DGI7BWAW/ Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/G3AGDVE3KBLOOYBPISFDS74R4YAZEDAY/ Third Party Advisory