CVE record · CVE-2023-6176

Kernel: local dos vulnerability in scatterwalk_copychunks

CVSS 4.7 MediumEPSS 0.0025 · 16th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 16 Nov 2023, 17:15 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.rt7.342.el8_10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.18.0-553.el8_10 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:5.14.0-427.13.1.el9_4 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: kernel https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: kernel-rt https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2023-6176
CNA: redhat
Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Published: 16 Nov 2023
Updated: 6 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
4.7	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0025, the 16th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

16 Nov 2023, 17:15 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
16 Nov 2023, 18:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6176 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219359 issue-trackingredhat
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cfaa80c91f6f99b9342b6557f0f0e1143e434066

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.