🛡️ CVE-2023-6679
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-476 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A null pointer dereference vulnerability was found in dpll_pin_parent_pin_set() in drivers/dpll/dpll_netlink.c in the Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL) subsystem in the Linux kernel. This issue could be exploited to trigger a 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-476
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-12-11
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

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

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253986
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2253986
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/

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