CVE-2023-6040

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Publication date:

12/01/2024

Last modified:

20/03/2025

Description

An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.16 (including)	4.19.305 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	4.20 (including)	5.4.267 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.208 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.147 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	5.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:::::::*

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CVE-2023-6040

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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