CVE-2023-0615 Denial of service in Kernel

What is CVE-2023-0615?

CVE-2023-0615 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Feb 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A memory leak flaw and potential divide by zero and Integer overflow was found in the Linux kernel V4L2 and vivid test code functionality. This issue occurs when a user triggers ioctls, such as VIDIOC_S_DV_TIMINGS ioctl. This could allow a local user to crash the system if vivid test code enabled.

Weakness: CWE-401, CWE-369, CWE-190, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-0615?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2023-0615?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2023-0615 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-0615 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

• CVE-2026-53266 Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-13364, DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0615, GHSA-95rp-7qcx-wxr4, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0615.