{"id":"CVE-2023-4459","details":"A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.","modified":"2026-03-15T22:47:30.194212Z","published":"2023-08-21T19:15:09.373Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2023:3599-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3599-2","SUSE-SU-2023:3600-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3600-2","SUSE-SU-2023:3601-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3656-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3680-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3681-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3682-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3684-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3687-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3705-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3785-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3964-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3969-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3971-1","SUSE-SU-2023:3988-1","SUSE-SU-2023:4028-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0412"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1250"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1382"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2008"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1306"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1367"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2006"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-4459"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219268"},{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/edf410cb74dc612fd47ef5be319c5a0bcd6e6ccd"}],"affected":[{"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.18"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"8.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-4459.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}