Vulnerability in Fedora
CVE-2023-5158
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.
EPSS: 0.000 (2.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Fedora
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- N/a Kernel — versions 5.13-rc1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHBZ#2240561 (issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-5158?
- CVE-2023-5158 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedora, classified under CWE-684. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2023-09-25.
- How severe is CVE-2023-5158?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.