VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-5158

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-09-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-684
  • nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Primary references