Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 21, 2023· Updated Oct 17, 2024

Kernel: nvme: memory corruption via unprivileged user passthrough

CVE-2023-6238

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.

Affected products

111

Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6v5
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7v5
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8v5
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9v5
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
osv-coords106 versions
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Fedora/Fedorav5

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6238mitrevdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitreissue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

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