CVE-2023-46838

Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides a certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are directly translated into what Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of length zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RGEKT4DKSDXDS34EL7M4UVJMMPH7Z3ZZ/	Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZFYW6R64GPLUOXSQBJI3JBUX3HGLAYPP/	Mailing List
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-448.html	Patch Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:38:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:39:::::::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2024-01-29 11:15

Updated : 2024-06-27 12:15

NVD link : CVE-2023-46838

Mitre link : CVE-2023-46838

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2023-46838

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Products Affected

fedoraproject

fedora

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

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