CVE-2023-5158

medium

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-25

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H