CVE-2023-0179

Summary

CVECVE-2023-0179
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-03-27 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-11 19:12:00 UTC
DescriptionA buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-190

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 22.04 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.3 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.3 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.3 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.3 rc4 All All
Application Redhat Codeready Linux Builder - All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibmz Systems 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibmz Systems 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibmz Systems Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Real Time 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux For Real Time For Nfv 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 9.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For Sap Solutions 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2023-0179 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LNS-0093-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
2161713 – (CVE-2023-0179) CVE-2023-0179 kernel: Netfilter integer overflow vulnerability in nft_payload_copy_vlan MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
oss-sec: CVE-2023-0179: Linux kernel stack buffer overflow in nftables: PoC and writeup MISC seclists.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160459 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12116)
  • 160460 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel-container (ELSA-2023-12120)
  • 160490 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2023-0951)
  • 181491 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5324-1)
  • 181618 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3349-1)
  • 184273 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-0179)
  • 199154 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5858-1)
  • 199156 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5859-1)
  • 199158 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerability (USN-5857-1)
  • 199161 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5856-1)
  • 199208 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5915-1)
  • 199209 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5912-1)
  • 199211 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5911-1)
  • 199220 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Raspberry Pi) Vulnerabilities (USN-5929-1)
  • 199223 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5935-1)
  • 199227 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5938-1)
  • 199229 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (KVM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5941-1)
  • 199238 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (KVM) Vulnerabilities (USN-5950-1)
  • 199243 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-5962-1)
  • 241215 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:0979)
  • 241218 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2023:0951)
  • 241229 Red Hat Update for kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:1008)
  • 241258 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2023:1202)
  • 241260 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:1203)
  • 241290 Red Hat Update for kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:1435)
  • 283630 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2023-58eac2b872)
  • 283631 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2023-0597579983)
  • 354739 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-013
  • 354741 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-026
  • 354813 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-108
  • 354814 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-110
  • 354815 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel-livepatch : ALAS2LIVEPATCH-2023-109
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 378468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-20230042)
  • 378512 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0042)
  • 6140362 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-37qj-3fc9-cwcc)
  • 672914 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1781)
  • 672951 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-1759)
  • 753684 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0394-1)
  • 753690 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0409-1)
  • 753709 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0433-1)
  • 755851 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2646-1)
  • 755900 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux-RT Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:0488-1)
  • 906821 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (25914-1)
  • 906850 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (25932-1)
  • 940942 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2023:0951)
  • 940952 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel-rt (ALSA-2023:0979)
  • 960667 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel-rt (RLSA-2023:0979)
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