UBUNTU-CVE-2023-6040

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-6040

    Published: 12 Jan 2024Last Modified: 9 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-6040
    Aliases:
    USN-6605-1
    USN-6605-2
    USN-6607-1

    Summary:

    Details: An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-6040, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6605-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6607-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6609-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6605-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6609-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6609-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6628-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6628-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-6040

    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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