CVE-2023-0179

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux Kernel. This issue could allow the leakage of both stack and heap addresses, and potentially allow Local Privilege Escalation to the root user via arbitrary code execution.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

This flaw can be mitigated by disabling unprivileged user namespaces will prevent exploitation:

sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 0