Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2023-2163

Good to know:

icon

Date: September 20, 2023

Incorrect verifier pruning in BPF in Linux Kernel >=5.4 leads to unsafe code paths being incorrectly marked as safe, resulting in arbitrary read/write in kernel memory, lateral privilege escalation, and container escape.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-2163
https://github.com/gregkh/linux/commit/71b547f561247897a0a14f3082730156c0533fed
https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6303226026131456/a-deep-dive-into-cve-2023-2163-how-we-found-and-fixed-an-ebpf-linux-kernel-vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2163
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=71b547f561247897a0a14f3082730156c0533fed
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-2163

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Incorrect Calculation

CWE-682

Top Fix

icon

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version linux-yocto - 4.10+gitAUTOINC+805ea440c7_b259a5d744;linux-yocto - 4.8.26+gitAUTOINC+1c60e003c7_27efc3ba68;linux-libc-headers - 5.14

Learn More

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

Do you need more information?

Contact Us