INT Overflow Heap Corruption in netconsd<0.2
CVE-2023-28753 Published on May 18, 2023
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2023-28753 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2023-28753 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2023-28753
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Affected Versions
Facebook netconsd:- Before 0.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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