{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2023-09-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: vmwgfx: reference count issue leads to use-after-free in surface handling",
    "id" : "2245663",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245663"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-911",
  "details" : [ "The reference count changes made as part of the CVE-2023-33951 and CVE-2023-33952 fixes exposed a use-after-free flaw in the way memory objects were handled when they were being used to store a surface. When running inside a VMware guest with 3D acceleration enabled, a local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges.", "The reference count changes made as part of the CVE-2023-33951 and CVE-2023-33952 fixes exposed a use-after-free flaw in the way memory objects were handled when they were being used to store a surface. When running inside a VMware guest with 3D acceleration enabled, a local, unprivileged user could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Murray McAllister (NCC Group APAC) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0134",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-513.11.1.rt7.313.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0113",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-513.11.1.el8_9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-03-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:1404",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-477.51.1.el8_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0461",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-01-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:0461",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-07-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:4823",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-284.75.1.el9_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support",
    "release_date" : "2024-07-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:4831",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-284.75.1.rt14.360.el9_2"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "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-2023-5633\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5633" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-5633",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "This flaw can be mitigated by turning off 3D acceleration in VMware (if possible) or preventing the affected `vmwgfx` kernel module from being loaded. For instructions on how to blacklist a kernel module, please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}