CVE-2023-1206

Published Jun 30, 2023

Last updated 10 months ago

Overview

Description
A hash collision flaw was found in the IPv6 connection lookup table in the Linux kernel’s IPv6 functionality when a user makes a new kind of SYN flood attack. A user located in the local network or with a high bandwidth connection can increase the CPU usage of the server that accepts IPV6 connections up to 95%.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
5.7
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
2.1
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
MEDIUM

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-400
secalert@redhat.com
CWE-400

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations