CVE-2023-6040 (GCVE-0-2023-6040)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 01:37 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:09
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Title
An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family)
Summary
An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Linux Kernel Organization linux Affected: 0 , < 5.18-rc1 (semver)
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Credits
Lin Ma from Ant Security Light-Year Lab & ZJU
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