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CVE-2023-6238

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NVD

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

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

Affected packages


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