CVE-2023-31248

Summary

CVECVE-2023-31248
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-05 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-02-01 17:15:00 UTC
DescriptionLinux Kernel nftables Use-After-Free Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability; `nft_chain_lookup_byid()` failed to check whether a chain was active and CAP_NET_ADMIN is in any user or network namespace

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
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 Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.9.0 rc1 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0097-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: kernel-headers-6.4.4-200.fc38 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: kernel-tools-6.4.4-100.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists MISC lists.fedoraproject.org
Kernel Live Patch Security Notice LSN-0096-1 ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
oss-security - CVE-2023-31248 - Linux kernel nf_tables UAF when using nft_chain_lookup_byid MISC www.openwall.com
[PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: do not ignore genmask when looking up chain by id MISC lore.kernel.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3512-1] linux-5.10 security update MISC lists.debian.org
CVE-2023-31248 Linux Kernel Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security security.netapp.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5453-1 linux MISC www.debian.org
oss-security - CVE-2023-31248 - Linux kernel nf_tables UAF when using nft_chain_lookup_byid MISC www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160912 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2023-5069)
  • 199604 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6246-1)
  • 199607 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6247-1)
  • 199608 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6250-1)
  • 199610 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6248-1)
  • 199612 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6255-1)
  • 199618 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6260-1)
  • 199651 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6285-1)
  • 242142 Red Hat Update for kpatch-patch (RHSA-2023:5575)
  • 242154 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2023:5604)
  • 242157 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:5603)
  • 284333 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2023-e4e985b5dd)
  • 284334 Fedora Security Update for kernel (FEDORA-2023-3661f028b8)
  • 355591 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-024
  • 355616 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2023-037
  • 355632 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-251
  • 378710 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0079)
  • 379043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0136)
  • 6000130 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3512-1)
  • 6000218 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5453-1)
  • 6140082 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-m78h-pwqc-ppq2)
  • 673354 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2843)
  • 673496 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2860)
  • 754919 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 9 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:3773-1)
  • 754920 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2023:3772-1)
  • 754922 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 1 for SLE 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2023:3784-1)
  • 754923 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 6 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:3783-1)
  • 754990 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 23 for SLE 15 SP3) (SUSE-SU-2023:3892-1)
  • 755003 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 1 for SLE 15 SP5) (SUSE-SU-2023:3923-1)
  • 755004 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 13 for SLE 15 SP4) (SUSE-SU-2023:3922-1)
  • 755006 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 26 for SLE 15 SP3) (SUSE-SU-2023:3928-1)
  • 941249 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2023:5069)
  • 941254 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel-rt (ALSA-2023:5091)
  • 961015 Rocky Linux Security Update for kernel-rt (RLSA-2023:5091)
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