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A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.1.7-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-0179
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0179
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.7-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.7-1
linux
Fixed versions: 6.1.7-1
Complete source record
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