CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-39180

7.5 HIGH Published 2024-11-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-400

Description

A flaw was found within the handling of SMB2_READ commands in the kernel ksmbd module. The issue results from not releasing memory after its effective lifetime. An attacker can leverage this to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Linux. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability, but only systems with ksmbd enabled are vulnerable.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References