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CVE-2023-6238

Published

Last updated

NVD

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

Severity

6.7

Medium

CVSS V3

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

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