cve-2023-5972
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-23 17:21
Modified
2024-08-02 08:14
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Kernel: the nfta_inner_num and nfta_expr_name netlink attributes accessed without checking its presence in nft_inner.c
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5972Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2248189Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/505ce0630ad5d31185695f8a29dde8d29f28faa7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/52177bbf19e6e9398375a148d2e13ed492b40b80Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Fedora Fedora
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