CVE-2023-38429

critical

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ksmbd?id=443d61d1fa9faa60ef925513d83742902390100f

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-07-18

Updated: 2023-12-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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