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CVE-2023-5158

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CVE-2023-5158

Published: Sep 25, 2023

Modified: Feb 27, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.5

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

kernel

unaffected
5.13-rc1

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions

Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

All versions

Fedora

Fedora

All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

RHBZ#2240561
issue-tracking
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