CVE-2023-1513 (GCVE-0-2023-1513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-23 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-25 19:33
VLAI
Summary
A flaw was found in KVM. When calling the KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS ioctl, on 32-bit systems, there might be some uninitialized portions of the kvm_debugregs structure that could be copied to userspace, causing an information leak.
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Linux kernel (KVM) Affected: Fixed in kernel 6.2
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