Kernel: null pointer dereference vulnerability in ida_free in lib/idr.c (Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8)

CVE-2023-6915
MEDIUM 6.2

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
redhat
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow an attacker using this library to cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a function return.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9unaffected 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD