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CVE-2023-23454
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2023-01-12 · updated 2026-10-14
- Weakness: CWE-843
Description
cbq_classify in net/sched/sch_cbq.c in the Linux kernel through 6.1.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (slab-out-of-bounds read) because of type confusion (non-negative numbers can sometimes indicate a TC_ACT_SHOT condition rather than valid classification results).
Affected products
- Debian Linux: 11.0
- Linux kernel: from 2.6.12 through 6.1.4
References
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=caa4b35b4317d5147b3ab0fbdc9c075c7d2e9c12
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5324
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/10/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/10/4
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=caa4b35b4317d5147b3ab0fbdc9c075c7d2e9c12
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00000.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5324
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/10/1
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/10/4
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