CVE-2023-3159

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 6.7
EPSS: EPSS 0.21 % · percentile 12 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-06-12
Updated: 2025-04-23
Assigner: redhat
NVD status: Modified

Description

A use after free issue was discovered in driver/firewire in outbound_phy_packet_callback in the Linux Kernel. In this flaw a local attacker with special privilege may cause a use after free problem when queue_event() fails.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.7	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-416

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-43843
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-3159

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0726 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0664 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0626 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0599 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0578 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0544 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de SUSE · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 5.18
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*

Affected products

Product	Versions
Kernel	affected Kernel version prior to Kernel 5.18-rc6

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b7c81f80246fac44077166f3e07103affe6db8ff

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD