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CVE-2023-38426

critical

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.4. ksmbd has an out-of-bounds read in smb2_find_context_vals when create_context's name_len is larger than the tag length.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230915-0010/

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.4

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ksmbd?id=02f76c401d17e409ed45bf7887148fcc22c93c85

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-07-18

Updated: 2023-12-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02077