Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-0458 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
A speculative pointer dereference problem exists in the Linux Kernel on the do_prlimit() function. The resource argument value is controlled and is used in pointer arithmetic for the 'rlim' variable and can be used to leak the contents. We recommend upgrading past version 6.1.8 or commit 739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/diff/kernel/sys.c?id=v6.1.8&id2=v6.1.7
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/diff/kernel/sys.c?id=v6.1.8&id2=v6.1.7
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/739790605705ddcf18f21782b9c99ad7d53a8c11
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html