CVE-2023-6040
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2024-01-12 |
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.
See more information about CVE-2023-6040 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
CVSS Scoring
NOTE: The following CVSS v3.1 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score: | 7.8 | CVSS Vector: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Attack Vector: | Local network | Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Privileges Required: | Low | User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Unchanged | Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High | Availability Impact: | High |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12606 | 2024-09-02 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12270 | 2024-04-08 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2024-12606 | 2024-09-02 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (kernel) | ELSA-2024-7000 | 2024-09-24 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (kernel) | ELSA-2024-2394 | 2024-05-02 |
| Oracle VM version 3 (kernel-uek) | OVMSA-2024-0011 | 2024-09-03 |
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