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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-7258 (CVE-2023-7258)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-05-15 17:15 – Updated: 2025-09-08 16:56 – Source website

Details

A denial of service exists in Gvisor Sandbox where a bug in reference counting code in mount point tracking could lead to a panic, making it possible for an attacker running as root and with permission to mount volumes to kill the sandbox. We recommend upgrading past commit 6a112c60a257dadac59962e0bc9e9b5aee70b5b6

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

6.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-7258	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7258	REPORT
	https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/6a112c60a…	REPORT

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CVE-2023-7258 (GCVE-0-2023-7258)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-15 16:29 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:57

Title

Denial-of-Service in Gvisor

Summary

Severity

4.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-05-15 18:05 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

Google Google root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/google/gvisor/commit/6a112c60a…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Google	Gvisor	Affected: 0b983ff832b175e406f4f9b1a3868457bb1ceb7b , < 6a112c60a257dadac59962e0bc9e9b5aee70b5b6 (git)

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