CVE-2023-1076

CVSS v3.1 5.5 (Medium)
55% Progress
EPSS 0.04 % (17th)
0.04% Progress
Affected Products 1
Advisories 26

A flaw was found in the Linux Kernel. The tun/tap sockets have their socket UID hardcoded to 0 due to a type confusion in their initialization function. While it will be often correct, as tuntap devices require CAP_NET_ADMIN, it may not always be the case, e.g., a non-root user only having that capability. This would make tun/tap sockets being incorrectly treated in filtering/routing decisions, possibly bypassing network filters.

Weaknesses
CWE-791
Incomplete Filtering of Special Elements
CWE-843
Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
Related CVEs
CVE Status
PUBLISHED
CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Published Date
2023-03-27 21:15:10
(17 months ago)
Updated Date
2023-05-03 01:15:10
(16 months ago)

Affected Products

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Configuration #1

    CPE23 From Up To
  Linux Kernel cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:-
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