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CVE-2023-52996

ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in fib_metrics_match() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipv4: prevent potential spectre v1 gadget in fib_metrics_match() if (!type) continue; if (type > RTAX_MAX) return false; ... fi_val = fi->fib_metrics->metrics[type - 1]; @type being used as an array index, we need to prevent cpu speculation or risk leaking kernel memory content.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 5f9ae3d9e7e4ad6db0491abc7c4ae5452dbeadd8 before 8f0eb24f1a7a60ce635f0d757a46f1a37a4d467d; affected 5f9ae3d9e7e4ad6db0491abc7c4ae5452dbeadd8 before 7f9828fb1f688210e681268490576f0ca65c322a; affected 5f9ae3d9e7e4ad6db0491abc7c4ae5452dbeadd8 before ca3cf947760de050d558293002ad3e7f4b8745d2; affected 5f9ae3d9e7e4ad6db0491abc7c4ae5452dbeadd8 before f9753ebd61be2d957b5504cbd3fd719674f05b7a; affected 5f9ae3d9e7e4ad6db0491abc7c4ae5452dbeadd8 before 5e9398a26a92fc402d82ce1f97cc67d832527da0
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.14; unaffected 0 before 4.14; unaffected 5.4.231 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.166 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.91 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.9 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.2 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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