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CVE-2023-3108

Kernel: a race condition in crypto module in the function skcipher_recvmsg

Published: 7/11/2023 Last updated: 11/20/2025 Reserved: 6/5/2023

A flaw was found in the subsequent get_user_pages_fast in the Linux kernel’s interface for symmetric key cipher algorithms in the skcipher_recvmsg of crypto/algif_skcipher.c function. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 6.2 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (13)

Product Vendor Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat 19.2.1
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat <= 2.0.12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat 1.13.6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Kernel-3.18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat 1.11.5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat 20.4.1.2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Red Hat all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat n/a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Red Hat < *

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