CVE-2023-0179

high

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0003/

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/20

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161713

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171601/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LNS-0093-1.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-03-27

Updated: 2023-08-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High