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CVE-2023-46838 Code injection

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CVE Information

Original CVE data

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Transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol can consist of multiple parts. While not really useful, except for the initial part any of them may be of zero length, i.e. carry no data at all. Besides a certain initial portion of the to be transferred data, these parts are directly translated into what Linux calls SKB fragments. Such converted request parts can, when for a particular SKB they are all of length zero, lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code.

CWE: CWE-476
CVSS v2-
CVSS v37.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
https://xenbits.xenproject.org/xsa/advisory-448.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZFYW6R64GPLUOXSQBJI3JBUX3HGLAYPP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/RGEKT4DKSDXDS34EL7M4UVJMMPH7Z3ZZ/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html
Affected Vendors

Debian - (1)

Fedoraproject - (1)

Linux - (1)

Basic Analysis

Common vulnerability metrics

Vulnerabilty type as detected by PRIOnengine

Code injection

CVSS Scores as calculated by PRIOnengine
CVSS v25
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS v39.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
MITRE CWE Top 25

Vulnerability weakness type is in the top 25 CWEs according to MITRE. View Mitre Top 25 CWEs

Exploits

No exploit code is reported to exist.

Active Exploitation

Vulnerability is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. See the KEV Catalog

Social Network Activity

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Threat Actor Activity

No sightings of the vulnerability within threat reports.

Cybersecurity Frameworks

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Compliance Impact

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Web Application Security Frameworks

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