CVE-2023-6240
medium
CVSS v3
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
A Marvin vulnerability side-channel leakage was found in the RSA decryption operation in the Linux Kernel. This issue may allow a network attacker to decrypt ciphertexts or forge signatures, limiting the services that use that private key.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhel | 9 | fixed | |
| rocky | 8 | fixed | |
| sles | affected | | |
| rocky | 9 | fixed | |
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
| almalinux | 8 | fixed | kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.5.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm |
| almalinux | 9 | fixed | rv-5.14.0-427.16.1.el9_4.aarch64.rpm |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2758
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3627
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:3618
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6240.html
- https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2024:2758
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-6240
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3618
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2250843
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2257406
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2263875
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265271
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265646
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265654
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2265833
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266296
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266446
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266746
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266841
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267038
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267185
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267355
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267509
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267705
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267724
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2267758
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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.