🛡️ CVE-2023-3161
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1335 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in the Framebuffer Console (fbcon) in the Linux Kernel. When providing font->width and font->height greater than 32 to fbcon_set_font, since there are no checks in place, a shift-out-of-bounds occurs leading to undefined behavior and possible denial of service.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-1335
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-06-12
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-03-11

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
fedora
linux-kernel

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