Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2023-6238

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.

  • Published: Nov 21, 2023
  • Updated: May 10, 2024
  • CVE: CVE-2023-6238
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.7
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
fedoraproject / fedora 38 38.x