A flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem of the Linux kernel. A race condition between IPSET_CMD_ADD and IPSET_CMD_SWAP can lead to a kernel panic due to the invocation of __ip_set_put on a wrong set. This issue may allow a local user to crash the system.
CVE-2023-42756
This medium-severity CVE scores 4.7 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 80% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 4.7
- EG Score
- 4.7(medium)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity47% × 45%Exploitation40% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 19.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 28, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42756
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239848
- secalert@redhathttps://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/242
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-42756
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2239848
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00027.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GISYSL3F6WIEVGHJGLC2MFNTUXHPTKQH/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GPMICQ2HVZO5UAM5KPXHAZKA2U3ZDOO6/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/V5PDNWPKAP3WL5RQZ4RIDS6MG32OHH5R/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2023/q3/242
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-42756(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(19)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(19)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-427562023-10-03
Kernel: netfilter: race condition between ipset_cmd_add and ipset_cmd_swap
- UbuntuUSN-6441-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6441-2HIGH
Linux kernel (GCP) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6441-3HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6442-1HIGH
Linux kernel (BlueField) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6443-1HIGH
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6444-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6444-2HIGH
Linux kernel (StarFive) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6445-1HIGH
Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6445-2HIGH
Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6446-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6446-2HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6446-3HIGH
Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6454-1HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6454-2HIGH
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6454-3HIGH
Linux kernel (ARM laptop) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6454-4HIGH
Linux kernel (StarFive) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6466-1HIGH
Linux kernel (NVIDIA) vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6479-1HIGH
Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
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