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GHSA-CW47-8XQR-CFH2

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-12 03:30 – Updated: 2024-06-27 15:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2023-6040 (GCVE-0-2023-6040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 01:37 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:09

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.

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-125

Assigner

canonical

References

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	http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kerne…
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	The Linux Kernel Organization	linux	Affected: 0 , < 5.18-rc1 (semver)

Credits

Lin Ma from Ant Security Light-Year Lab & ZJU

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

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Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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