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CISA-2023-6238

CISA-2023-6238 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.7 MEDIUM

Reported by redhat · Published November 21, 2023

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the NVM Express (NVMe) driver in the Linux kernel. Only privileged user could specify a small meta buffer and let the device perform larger Direct Memory Access (DMA) into the same buffer, overwriting unrelated kernel memory, causing random kernel crashes and memory corruption.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
6.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/akernel
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
FedoraFedora
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
FedoraFedora
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9
n/akernel
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Timeline

  • Nov 21, 2023 CVE Published
  • Oct 17, 2024 CVE Updated

References

  • vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
  • RHBZ#2250834 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
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