| Name | CVE-2023-0179 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3349-1, DSA-5324-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| linux (PTS) | buster | 4.19.249-2 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 4.19.289-2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 5.10.197-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 5.10.191-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.55-1 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.52-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.5.13-1 | fixed |
| linux-5.10 (PTS) | buster (security) | 5.10.197-1~deb10u1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[buster] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/13/2
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20230111212251.193032-4-pablo@netfilter.org/