Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-4459 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008