PT-2024-1299 · Xen+6 · Xen+6
Pratyush Yadav
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Published
2024-01-08
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Updated
2025-06-02
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CVE-2023-46838
CVSS v2.0
7.8
High
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Xen (affected versions not specified)
Description
The issue is related to the processing of transmit requests in Xen's virtual network protocol, which can consist of multiple parts. When all parts of a particular request are of zero length, it can lead to a de-reference of NULL in core networking code. This can potentially cause a denial of service. The
xenvif get requests() function in the drivers/net/xen-netback/netback.c module is associated with this issue.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
NULL Pointer Dereference
RCE
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Alt Linux
Astra Linux
Linuxmint
Red Os
Suse
Ubuntu
Xen