CVE-2023-0597

medium

Description

A flaw possibility of memory leak in the Linux kernel cpu_entry_area mapping of X86 CPU data to memory was found in the way user can guess location of exception stack(s) or other important data. A local user could use this flaw to get access to some important data with expected location in memory.

References

https://git.kernel.org/linus/97e3d26b5e5f371b3ee223d94dd123e6c442ba80

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/07/28/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-23

Updated: 2023-07-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium