FKIE_CVE-2023-5972

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-23 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:49
Severity
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the nft_inner.c functionality of netfilter in the Linux kernel. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.2.0
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
linux linux_kernel 6.6
fedoraproject fedora 39
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