Vulnerability CVE-2023-4459


Published: 2023-08-21

Description:
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccd
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459

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