CVE-2023-6040

Name	CVE-2023-6040
Description	An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.304-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.209-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.205-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	6.1.76-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.85-1	fixed
	trixie	6.6.15-2	fixed
	sid	6.7.12-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bullseye	5.10.209-1
linux	source	(unstable)	5.18.2-1

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1
https://git.kernel.org/linus/f1082dd31fe461d482d69da2a8eccfeb7bf07ac2 (5.18-rc1)