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FKIE_CVE-2023-6040

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-01-12 02:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:49
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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
An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.
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
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
debian debian_linux 10.0
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