Possible dos from guest to host invringh_kiov_advance in vhost driver at drivers/vhost/vringh.c
CVE-2023-5158

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Red Hat
Status
Kernel
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Vendor
CVE Published:
25 September 2023

Summary

A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.

Affected Version(s)

kernel 5.13-rc1

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158
vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561
issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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