CVE-2023-5158

Public on 2023-09-25

Modified on 2024-03-01

Description

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.

Severity

Medium

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CVSS v3 Base Score

5.5

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Affected Packages

Platform	Package	Status
Amazon Linux 1	kernel	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Core	kernel	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra	kernel	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra	kernel	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.4 Extra	kernel	Not Affected
Amazon Linux 2023	kernel	Not Affected

CVSS Scores

	Score Type	Score	Vector
Amazon Linux	CVSSv3	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	CVSSv3	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2023-5158 Mitre: CVE-2023-5158