{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2023-12-08T11:56:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: null pointer dereference vulnerability in nft_dynset_init()",
    "id" : "2253632",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253632"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in nft_dynset_init() in net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c in nf_tables in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN user privilege to trigger a denial of service.", "A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in nft_dynset_init() in net/netfilter/nft_dynset.c in nf_tables in the Linux kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with CAP_NET_ADMIN user privilege to trigger a denial of service." ],
  "statement" : "To trigger the issue, it requires the ability to create user/net namespaces.\nOn non-containerized deployments of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, you can disable user namespaces by setting user.max_user_namespaces to 0:\n~~~ \necho \"user.max_user_namespaces=0\" > /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf\nsysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/userns.conf\n~~~\nOn containerized deployments, such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, do not use this mitigation, as the functionality is needed to be enabled.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Xingyuan Mo ((IceSword Lab)) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2950",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2024-05-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:3138",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "kernel-0:4.18.0-553.el8_10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-04-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:2394",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4"
  } ],
  "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-2023-6622\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6622\nhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3701cd390fd731ee7ae8b8006246c8db82c72bea" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2023-6622",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is to skip loading the affected module \"netfilter\" onto the system till we have a fix available, this can be done by a blacklist mechanism, this 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",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}