FKIE_CVE-2023-4459

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-08-21 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:37
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A 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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccdPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccdPatch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
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