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CVE-2023-45871An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c in the IGB driver in the Linux kernel before 6.5.3. A buffer size may…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.64%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 49% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An issue was discovered in drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c in the IGB driver in the Linux kernel before 6.5.3. A buffer size may not be adequate for frames larger than the MTU.
Timeline
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.64% · top 49% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References6
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?id=bb5ed01cd2428cd25b1c88a3a9cba87055eb289f (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.5.3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231110-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20240111 [SECURITY] [DLA 3710-1] linux security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-50137 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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