ghsa-p788-v6c7-5vqg
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-08-21 21:31
Modified
2024-04-25 15:30
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-4459"
  ],
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    "nvd_published_at": "2023-08-21T19:15:09Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-p788-v6c7-5vqg",
  "modified": "2024-04-25T15:30:36Z",
  "published": "2023-08-21T21:31:23Z",
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