{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-01-01T17:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "Kernel: denial of service in atm_tc_enqueue in net/sched/sch_atm.c due to type confusion",
    "id" : "2168332",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2168332"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "4.2",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-843",
  "details" : [ "atm_tc_enqueue in net/sched/sch_atm.c in the Linux kernel through 6.1.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service because of type confusion (non-negative numbers can sometimes indicate a TC_ACT_SHOT condition rather than valid classification results).", "A denial of service flaw was found in atm_tc_enqueue in net/sched/sch_atm.c in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to type confusion. Non-negative numbers could indicate a TC_ACT_SHOT condition rather than valid classification results." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:6901",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.rt7.307.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2023-11-14T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2023:7077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-02-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0724",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.91.1.el8_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0575",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.43.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-02-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0724",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-372.91.1.el8_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-23455\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23455\nhttps://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2965c7be0522eaa18808684b7b82b248515511b" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-23455",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "The mitigation is to disable unprivileged user namespaces by setting user.max_user_namespaces to 0:\n```\n# echo \"user.max_user_namespaces=0\" > /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf\n# sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf\n```",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}