CVE-2023-3338
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-06-30 00:00
Modified
2024-08-02 06:55
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel's DECnet networking protocol. This issue could allow a remote user to crash the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3338Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218618Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/276Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0005/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3338Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218618Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/07/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q2/276Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0005/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5480Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Fedora Fedora
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