Bug 2208936 (CVE-2023-28753)

Summary:	CVE-2023-28753 Netconsd: integer overflow in parse_packet function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Bug Depends On:	2208937, 2208938
Bug Blocks:	2208481

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-05-22 06:40:41 UTC

netconsd prior to v0.2 was vulnerable to an integer overflow in its parse_packet function. A malicious individual could leverage this overflow to create heap memory corruption with attacker controlled data.

References:
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2023-28753
https://github.com/facebook/netconsd/commit/9fc54edf54f7caea1189c2b979337ed37af2c60e

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2023-05-22 06:42:55 UTC

Created netconsd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2208938]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2208937]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-22 12:31:40 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.