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CVE-2023-6238

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CVSS 3.1
6.7 medium
EPSS
<1%p21
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
linuxfedoraproject
Products
linux kernel, fedora
Weakness
CWE-120
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.3%)

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