CVE-2023-28772

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Publication date:

23/03/2023

Last modified:

05/05/2025

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.13.3. lib/seq_buf.c has a seq_buf_putmem_hex buffer overflow.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 6.70 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

6.70

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.27 (including)	4.4.276 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.5 (including)	4.9.276 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.10 (including)	4.14.240 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.15 (including)	4.19.198 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.133 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.51 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.12.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.13 (including)	5.13.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2023-28772

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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