Description
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.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 5.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | kernel | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | — |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | — |
| Fedora | Fedora | — |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5158Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240561Issue Tracking, Patch
Timeline
- Published
- Sep 25, 2023
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified