CVE-2023-5158 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Linux	Linux Kernel
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5158
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5158

History

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-09-25T15:55:15.724Z

Updated: 2025-02-27T20:49:05.203Z

Reserved: 2023-09-25T11:01:28.398Z

Link: CVE-2023-5158

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:07.427Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-25T16:15:15.690

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:41:12.010

Link: CVE-2023-5158

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-09-25T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-5158 - Bugzilla

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