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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2023-11-21T20:21:20.625Z
Updated: 2024-08-02T08:21:18.011Z
Reserved: 2023-11-21T11:09:27.301Z
Link: CVE-2023-6238
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2023-11-21T21:15:09.273
Modified: 2024-02-07T00:15:55.240
Link: CVE-2023-6238
Redhat