CVE-2023-4732
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-03 16:55
Modified
2024-11-15 16:32
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A flaw was found in pfn_swap_entry_to_page in memory management subsystem in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw, an attacker with a local user privilege may cause a denial of service problem due to a BUG statement referencing pmd_t x.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6901Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7077Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7539Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4732Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236982Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6901Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7077Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7539Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4732Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236982Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-477.36.1.el8_8   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::baseos
Red Hat Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-372.87.1.el8_6   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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