Hyperscan Library Advisory

Summary:

A potential security vulnerability in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel® may allow denial of service. Intel is releasing software updates to mitigate this potential vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2023-28711

Description: Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel® before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

CVSS Base Score: 5.5 Medium

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products:

Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel® before version 5.4.1.

Recommendations:

Intel recommends updating the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel®, to version 5.4.1 or later.

Updates are available for download at this location:
<https://github.com/intel/hyperscan/releases&gt;

Acknowledgements:

Intel would like to thank Dr. Martin Ettl for reporting this issue.

Intel, and nearly the entire technology industry, follows a disclosure practice called Coordinated Disclosure, under which a cybersecurity vulnerability is generally publicly disclosed only after mitigations are available.