VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-4459
This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.25%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.25%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 16th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel · redhat/enterprise linux
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccdPatch
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccdPatch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.