CVE-2023-1206

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Publication date:

30/06/2023

Last modified:

11/01/2024

Description

A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6 connections up to 95%.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.70 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.70

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::		6.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2023-1206

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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