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CVE-2023-6238

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6238

CGA ID

CGA-4f6p-jq49-mcjq

Severity

Unknown

Description

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.

References

  • https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-4f6p-jq49-mcjq

Affected packages


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