CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-38429
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
Description
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. fs/ksmbd/connection.c in ksmbd has an off-by-one error in memory allocation (because of ksmbd_smb2_check_message) that may lead to out-of-bounds access.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15 < 5.15.113)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.30)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.3.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.4 Release Notes
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ksmbd?id=443d61d1fa9faa60ef925513d83742902390100f Patch
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.4 Release Notes
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ksmbd?id=443d61d1fa9faa60ef925513d83742902390100f Patch
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250103-0009/ security.netapp.com