CVE-2023-6238
Kernel: nvme: memory corruption via unprivileged user passthrough
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Kernel: nvme: memory corruption via unprivileged user passthrough
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.
Reserved 2023-11-21 | Published 2023-11-21 | Updated 2024-10-17 | Assigner redhatBuffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
| 2023-10-25: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2023-10-13: | Made public. |
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6238
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2250834 (RHBZ#2250834)
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