CVE-2023-5158: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in vringh_kiov_advance in drivers/vhost/vringh.c in the host side of a virtio ring in the Linux Kernel. This issue may result in a denial of service from guest to host via zero length descriptor.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 5.12.19

Published 2023-09-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.