CVE-2023-6356

MEDIUM

Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Denial of Service via NVMe over TCP NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's NVMe driver. This issue may allow an unauthenticated malicious actor to send a set of crafted TCP packages when using NVMe over TCP, leading the NVMe driver to a NULL pointer dereference in the NVMe driver and causing kernel panic and a denial of service.

References (13)

Core 13
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0723
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0724
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0725
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0881
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0897
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1248
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2094
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3810
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6356
Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2254054

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (27)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
linux/linux_kernel 5.0 - 5.4.268
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_eus 8.6
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_eus 9.2
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_eus_for_power_little_endian_eus 8.6_ppc64le
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_eus_for_power_little_endian_eus 9.2_ppc64le
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_for_arm64_eus 8.6_aarch64
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_for_arm64_eus 9.2_aarch64
redhat/codeready_linux_builder_for_ibm_z_systems_eus 9.2_s390x
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0
... and 17 more
Published Feb 07, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026