CVE-2023-6915

medium

Description

A Null pointer dereference problem was found in ida_free in lib/idr.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow an attacker using this library to cause a denial of service problem due to a missing check at a function return.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/af73483f4e8b6f5c68c9aa63257bdd929a9c194a

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254982

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6915

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-01-15

Updated: 2024-02-06

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