CVE-2023-5158

A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.

CVSS v3 5.5 MEDIUM

5.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158	Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561	Issue Tracking Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

26 Sep 2023, 15:58

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CWE		NVD-CWE-noinfo
First Time		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 5.5
CPE		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
References	~~(MISC) https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158 -~~	(MISC) https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158 - Third Party Advisory
References	~~(MISC) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561 -~~	(MISC) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561 - Issue Tracking, Patch

25 Sep 2023, 16:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2023-09-25 16:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 20:33

NVD link : CVE-2023-5158

Mitre link : CVE-2023-5158

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-5158

JSON object : View

Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo CWE-684

Incorrect Provision of Specified Functionality

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