Vulnerability CVE-2023-7192


Published: 2024-01-02

Description:
A memory leak problem was found in ctnetlink_create_conntrack in net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN privileges to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack due to a refcount overflow.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-7192
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256279
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=ac4893980bbe79ce383daf9a0885666a30fe4c83

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