Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2023-4459

Public on 2023-08-21
Modified on 2024-01-12
Description

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.

Severity
Medium
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2022-05-31 23:47 ALAS-2022-1591
Amazon Linux 2 - Core kernel 2022-05-31 23:50 ALAS2-2022-1798
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra kernel 2022-06-04 00:05 ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-014
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra kernel 2023-06-29 23:20 ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2023-023
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra kernel 2022-06-04 00:07 ALAS2KERNEL-5.4-2022-026
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel 2023-02-17 20:46 ALAS2023-2023-070

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H