Vulnerability CVE-2023-0122


Published: 2023-01-17

Description:
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Linux kernel NVMe functionality, in nvmet_setup_auth(), allows an attacker to perform a Pre-Auth Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a remote machine. Affected versions v6.0-rc1 to v6.0-rc3, fixed in v6.0-rc4.

Type:

CWE-476

(NULL Pointer Dereference)

 References:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=da0342a3aa0357795224e6283df86444e1117168

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