{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2022-05-14T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: vmxnet3: use-after-free in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf()",
    "id" : "2219270",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219270"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all, which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem.", "A use-after-free flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_alloc_rx_buf in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in VMware's vmxnet3 ethernet NIC driver in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow a local attacker to crash the system due to a double-free while cleaning up vmxnet3_rq_cleanup_all, which could also lead to a kernel information leak problem." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-08T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:7683",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2022-11-15T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2022:8267",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1"
  } ],
  "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 8",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-4387\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4387\nhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e7fef9521e73ca8afd7da9e58c14654b02dfad8" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-4387",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is to skip loading the affected module \"vmxnet3\" onto the system until the fix is available, this can be done by a blacklist mechanism which will ensure the driver is not loaded at the boot time.\n~~~\nHow do I blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically?\nhttps://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 \n~~~",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}