CVE-2023-52997

Updated on 27 Mar 2025

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ip_metrics_convert()

if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return -EINVAL; … metrics[type - 1] = val;

@type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0-11 (+10 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in ip_metrics_convert()

if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return -EINVAL; … metrics[type - 1] = val;

@type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.

Fixes