CVE-2023-6040 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-6040 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/12/1