CVE-2023-46862

Summary

CVECVE-2023-46862
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-29 04:15:11 UTC
Updated2026-10-15 01:17:10 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel through 6.5.9. During a race with SQ thread exit, an io_uring/fdinfo.c io_uring_show_fdinfo NULL pointer dereference can occur.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 4.7 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types: CWE-476 | n/a

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified
ADP Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP affected V3.1.0 V3.1.5 custom Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e cert-portal.siemens.com
218032 – NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in io_uring_show_fdinfo. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.kernel.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/01/msg00005.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org
io_uring/fdinfo: lock SQ thread while retrieving thread cpu/pid · torvalds/linux@7644b1a · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199975 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (OEM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6533-1)
  • 200099 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6624-1)
  • 200132 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Azure) Vulnerabilities (USN-6652-1)
  • 200179 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6686-1)
  • 200191 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6686-2)
  • 200206 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Oracle) Vulnerabilities (USN-6686-3)
  • 200208 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (KVM) Vulnerabilities (USN-6686-4)
  • 200214 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (AWS) Vulnerabilities (USN-6705-1)
  • 200231 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) Vulnerabilities (USN-6686-5)
  • 356908 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-430
  • 357055 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2024-047
  • 357057 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2024-035
  • 6000419 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5594-1)
  • 6000428 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3711-1)
  • 6140250 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-48f3-q58c-pxv5)
  • 673657 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1122)
  • 674024 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2024-1107)
  • 907874 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (31816-1)

© CVE.report 2026

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report