cve-2023-6622
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-08 17:33
Modified
2024-11-15 15:14
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in nft_dynset_init() in net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c in nf_tables in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN user privilege to trigger a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6622Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253632Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3701cd390fd731ee7ae8b8006246c8db82c72beaPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6622Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253632Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3701cd390fd731ee7ae8b8006246c8db82c72beaPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/AAOVK2F3ALGKYIQ5IOMAYEC2DGI7BWAW/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G3AGDVE3KBLOOYBPISFDS74R4YAZEDAY/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
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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
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