CVE-2023-2019

State: Published
Severity: 4.4 Medium
Published: Apr 24, 2023
Updated: Mar 18, 2025
Reserved: Apr 13, 2023

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's netdevsim device driver, within the scheduling of events. This issue results from the improper management of a reference count. This may allow an attacker to create a denial of service condition on the system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-911

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Linux kernel's netdevsim device drivern/a	Fixed in kernel v6.0-rc1Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2189137
https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-CAN-17811/
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/180a6a3ee60a

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