CVE-2023-5158

low-risk

Published 2023-09-25

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.

Do I need to act?

0.01% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 6.5/10 Medium

LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Linux Kernel

Affected Vendors

Linux

References (4)

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158

Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561

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low-risk

Severity 21/34 · High

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal