CVE-2023-4459

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-4459
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-08-21 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2024-03-13 15:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cve-details MISC access.redhat.com
RHSA-2024:1250 access.redhat.com
Red Hat access.redhat.com
net: vmxnet3: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cle… · torvalds/linux@edf410c · GitHub MISC github.com
RHSA-2024:1306 access.redhat.com
2219268 – (CVE-2023-4459) CVE-2023-4459 kernel: vmxnet3: NULL pointer dereference in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup() 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

  • 160949 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2023-12842)
  • 199765 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6388-1)
  • 242855 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:0412)
  • 243050 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:1250)
  • 243062 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:1306)
  • 243076 Red Hat Update for kernel (RHSA-2024:1367)
  • 243096 Red Hat Update for kernel-rt (RHSA-2024:1382)
  • 390290 Oracle Managed Virtualization (VM) Server for x86 Security Update for kernel (OVMSA-2023-0023)
  • 673449 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2898)
  • 673484 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3033)
  • 673563 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1144)
  • 673732 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3010)
  • 673848 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-3217)
  • 673970 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2023-2879)
  • 754832 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3600-1)
  • 754833 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3599-1)
  • 754855 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3656-1)
  • 754863 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3680-1)
  • 754866 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3684-1)
  • 754867 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3683-1)
  • 754868 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3682-1)
  • 754869 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3681-1)
  • 754876 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3687-1)
  • 754883 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3705-1)
  • 754884 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3704-1)
  • 754899 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3599-2)
  • 754900 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3600-2)
  • 754901 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3704-2)
  • 754903 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3683-2)
  • 755026 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3964-1)
  • 755037 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3971-1)
  • 755038 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3969-1)
  • 755043 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2023:3988-1)
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