CVE-2023-3161

medium

Description

A flaw was found in the Framebuffer Console (fbcon) in the Linux Kernel. When providing font->width and font->height greater than 32 to fbcon_set_font, since there are no checks in place, a shift-out-of-bounds occurs leading to undefined behavior and possible denial of service.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2b09d5d364986f724f17001ccfe4126b9b43a0be

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213485

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-06-12

Updated: 2023-06-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium