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CVE-2023-52997

Medium 5.5

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

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.231
linux linux_kernel · 4.3 → 4.19.272
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.91
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.9
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.166

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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