CVE-2023-1513 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A flaw was found in KVM. When calling the KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS ioctl, on 32-bit systems, there might be some uninitialized portions of the kvm_debugregs structure that could be copied to userspace, causing an information leak.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Fedora
Linux	Linux Kernel
Redhat	Enterprise Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:::::::*

Package	CPE	Advisory	Released Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10	cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::nfv	RHSA-2024:2950	2024-05-22T00:00:00Z
kernel-0:4.18.0-553.el8_10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8	RHSA-2024:3138	2024-05-22T00:00:00Z

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179892
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2c10b61421a28e95a46ab489fd56c0f442ff6952
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00005.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00006.html
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230214103304.3689213-1-gregkh%40linuxfoundation.org/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1513
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-1513

History

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2023-03-23T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-02-25T19:33:10.636Z

Reserved: 2023-03-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-1513

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:49:11.667Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-23T21:15:19.427

Modified: 2025-02-25T20:15:32.013

Link: CVE-2023-1513

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-02-14T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-1513 - Bugzilla

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