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LIN1023-2754 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2023-6238

Created: Nov 21, 2023    Updated: Dec 4, 2023
Resolved Date: Dec 4, 2023
Found In Version: 10.23.30.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 22
Component/s: Kernel

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.

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) CVE-2023-6238 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-6238)
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