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CVE-2023-0179 — A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linu

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.

CVSS
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EPSS
0.48% (top 35.20%)
CWE
CWE-190
Published
2023-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2025-02-19T16:12:13.054Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
na / kernelunknown

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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