CVE-2023-39191 (GCVE-0-2023-39191)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-04 18:03
Modified
2025-11-06 21:01
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
Summary
An improper input validation flaw was found in the eBPF subsystem in the Linux kernel. The issue occurs due to a lack of proper validation of dynamic pointers within user-supplied eBPF programs prior to executing them. This may allow an attacker with CAP_BPF privileges to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::nfv
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-284.48.1.el9_2   < *
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::appstream
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:5.14.0-284.48.1.rt14.333.el9_2   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::realtime
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::nfv
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support     cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::baseos
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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