UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5158

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-5158

    Published: 25 Sept 2023Last Modified: 30 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-5158
    Aliases:
    USN-6534-1
    USN-6534-2
    USN-6534-3

    Summary:

    Details: 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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-5158, https://lore.kernel.org/virtualization/[email protected]/T/#u, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6534-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6536-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6537-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6549-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6534-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6549-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6534-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6549-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6549-4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6573-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6549-5, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6635-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5158

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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