VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-5158
This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.
MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 0.20%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.
- 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
- 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-684
- Affected
- linux/linux kernel
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561Issue Tracking, Patch
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.