Vulnerability CVE-2023-6238


Published: 2023-11-21

Description:
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the NVM Express (NVMe) driver in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged 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://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6238
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250834

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