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CVE-2023-0179 (GCVE-0-2023-0179)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-19 16:12
VLAI
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-19 16:11 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a kernel Affected: unknown
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