CVE-2023-0179
HIGH 7.8EPSS 1.9%
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.
- Affected
- kernel
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 1.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 80th percentile
- Published
- 2023-03-27
- Updated
- 2025-02-19
Proof-of-concept exploits (5)
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q1/20
- H4K6/CVE-2023-0179-PoC199★ · 2023-03-16
- TurtleARM/CVE-2023-0179-PoC214★ · 2024-03-29
- prabeershakya/CVE-2023-0179-POC-0★ · 2026-03-04
- shakyanayann/CVE-2023-01790★ · 2026-03-05
Security advisories
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171601/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LNS-0093-1…
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2161713
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230511-0003