CVE-2023-5972: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the nft_inner.c functionality of netfilter in the Linux kernel. This issue could allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 39 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.2.1, up to and including 6.5.10; version 6.2 only; version 6.2.0 only; version 6.6 only

Published 2023-11-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.