Description (CNA)
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 (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / kernel | affected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected |
| Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | unaffected |
| Fedora / Fedora | affected |
CWE
CWE-120
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6238
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250834
ADP enrichment
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