fkie_cve-2023-1073
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2023-03-27 21:15
Modified
2025-04-23 17:16
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A memory corruption flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s human interface device (HID) subsystem in how a user inserts a malicious USB device. This flaw allows a local user to crash or potentially escalate their privileges on the system.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | - | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 7.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 8.0 | |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 9.0 | |
| fedoraproject | fedora | 37 |
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