CVE-2023-3161

Summary

CVECVE-2023-3161
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-06-12 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-06-22 00:17:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the Framebuffer Console (fbcon) in the Linux Kernel. When providing font->width and font->height greater than 32 to fbcon_set_font, since there are no checks in place, a shift-out-of-bounds occurs leading to undefined behavior and possible denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-682

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 38 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 6.2 rc6 All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
fbcon: Check font dimension limits · torvalds/linux@2b09d5d · GitHub MISC github.com
2213485 – (CVE-2023-3161) CVE-2023-3161 kernel: fbcon: shift-out-of-bounds in fbcon_set_font() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160818 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12688)
  • 161066 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2023-6583)
  • 161147 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kernel (ELSA-2023-7077)
  • 181853 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2023-3161)
  • 199465 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Xilinx ZynqMP) Vulnerabilities (USN-6222-1)
  • 199614 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (IoT) Vulnerabilities (USN-6256-1)
  • 199617 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6254-1)
  • 242154 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2023:5604)
  • 242157 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2023:5603)
  • 242399 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2023:6583)
  • 242434 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt security (RHSA-2023:6901)
  • 242451 Red Hat Update for kernel security (RHSA-2023:7077)
  • 242855 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0412)
  • 378892 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0114)
  • 379043 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0136)
  • 379435 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX2-SA-2024:0012)
  • 390286 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2023-0018)
  • 673261 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2614)
  • 673272 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2584)
  • 673372 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2787)
  • 673498 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3132)
  • 673604 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2811)
  • 754160 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2808-1)
  • 754167 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2822-1)
  • 754168 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2830-1)
  • 754170 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2834-1)
  • 754183 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2859-1)
  • 755851 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the linux kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:2646-1)
  • 907000 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27193-1)
  • 907037 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27192-1)
  • 941453 AlmaLinux Security Update for kernel (ALSA-2023:7077)
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