CVE-2023-0122

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jan 17, 2023
Updated: Apr 4, 2025
Reserved: Jan 9, 2023

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel NVMe functionality, in nvmet_setup_auth(), allows an attacker to perform a Pre-Auth Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a remote machine. Affected versions v6.0-rc1 to v6.0-rc3, fixed in v6.0-rc4.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Kerneln/a	Linux kernel 6.0-rc4Affected

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=da0342a3aa0357795224e6283df86444e1117168
[oss-security] 20230118 Re: CVE-2023-0122: Linux kernel: Pre-Auth Remote DoS in NVMemailing-list
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230302-0002/

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