CVE-2023-6040
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-01-12 01:37
Modified
2024-08-02 08:21
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family)
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
The Linux Kernel Organizationlinux
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