What is CVE-2023-52905?

CVE-2023-52905 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.

How severe is CVE-2023-52905?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-52905 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2023-52905

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: octeontx2-pf: Fix resource leakage in VF driver unbind resources allocated like mcam entries to support the Ntuple feature and hash tables for the tc feature are not getting freed in driver unbind. This patch fixes the issue.

EPSS: 0.002 (11.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux — versions 2da48943274712fc3204089d9a97078350765635, 5.15, 0
Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.2

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-52905?: CVE-2023-52905 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2023-52905?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-52905 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.