CVE-2023-4569 (GCVE-0-2023-4569)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-28 21:46
Modified
2025-02-27 21:03
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-402 - Transmission of Private Resources into a New Sphere ('Resource Leak')
Summary
A memory leak flaw was found in nft_set_catchall_flush in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause double-deactivations of catchall elements, which can result in a memory leak.
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