{"id":163709,"date":"2023-05-12T00:22:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-linux-kernel-netfilter-flaw-gives-attackers-root-privileges"},"modified":"2023-05-12T00:22:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T05:22:44","slug":"new-linux-kernel-netfilter-flaw-gives-attackers-root-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-linux-kernel-netfilter-flaw-gives-attackers-root-privileges","title":{"rendered":"New Linux kernel NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-linux-kernel-netfilter-flaw-gives-attackers-root-privileges2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2023-32233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2023\u201332233<\/a> identifier has been reserved for the vulnerability, but a severity level is yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>The security problem stems from Netfilter nf_tables accepting invalid updates to its configuration, allowing specific scenarios where invalid batch requests lead to the corruption of the subsystem\u2019s internal state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system. The CVE-2023\u201332233 identifier has been reserved for the vulnerability, but a severity level is yet to be determined. The security problem stems from Netfilter nf_tables accepting invalid updates to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}