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🛡️ CVE-2023-5157 — enterprise-linux

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

Mariadb: node crashes with transport endpoint is not connected mysqld got signal 6

A vulnerability was found in MariaDB. An OpenVAS port scan on ports 3306 and 4567 allows a malicious remote client to cause a denial of service.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-5157 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2023-5157 is recorded against 14 packages.

  • enterprise-linux
  • enterprise-linux-eus
  • enterprise-linux-for-arm-64
  • enterprise-linux-for-arm-64-eus
  • enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems
  • enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems-eus
  • enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian
  • enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian-eus
  • enterprise-linux-server-aus
  • enterprise-linux-server-tus
  • fedora
  • mariadb
  • mariadb-min
  • mysql-client

Timeline and source

Published on 27 September 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

CVE-2023-5157 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-27
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux — —
enterprise-linux-eus — —
enterprise-linux-for-arm-64 — —
enterprise-linux-for-arm-64-eus — —
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems — —
enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems-eus — —
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian — —
enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian-eus — —
enterprise-linux-server-aus — —
enterprise-linux-server-tus — —
fedora — —
mariadb — —
mariadb-min — —
mysql-client — —

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240246
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240246

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