{"id":"CVE-2023-6040","details":"An out-of-bounds access vulnerability involving netfilter was reported and fixed as: f1082dd31fe4 (netfilter: nf_tables: Reject tables of unsupported family); While creating a new netfilter table, lack of a safeguard against invalid nf_tables family (pf) values within `nf_tables_newtable` function enables an attacker to achieve out-of-bounds access.","modified":"2026-03-27T08:59:19.246629Z","published":"2024-01-12T02:15:44.683Z","related":["ALSA-2024:2394","ALSA-2024:7000","ALSA-2024:7001","SUSE-SU-2024:0463-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0468-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0469-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0474-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0476-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0478-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0483-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0484-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0514-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0515-1","SUSE-SU-2024:0516-1","SUSE-SU-2026:1078-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00016.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html"},{"type":"FIX","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-6040.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"4.16"},{"fixed":"4.19.305"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"4.20"},{"fixed":"5.4.267"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"5.5"},{"fixed":"5.10.208"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"5.11"},{"fixed":"5.15.147"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"5.16"},{"fixed":"5.18"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"10.0"}]}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}