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CVE-2023-0179
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-03-27T22:15:20.963 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:24:58.257

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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