Security Advisory

CVE-2023-4459

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-08-21 18:49:13
Last updated 2025-11-15 08:17:03
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.