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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 21, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-4459

CVE-2023-4459

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in vmxnet3_rq_cleanup in drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c in the networking sub-component in vmxnet3 in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a local attacker with normal user privilege to cause a denial of service due to a missing sanity check during cleanup.

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