๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2023-5158

MEDIUM 6.5

Possible dos from guest to host invringh_kiov_advance in vhost driver at drivers/vhost/vringh.c

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.

CWE CWE-684
Vendor n/a
Product kernel
Published Sep 25, 2023
Last Updated Feb 27, 2025
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

n/a / kernel
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Fedora / Fedora
All versions affected

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561