CVE-2023-38429 (GCVE-0-2023-38429)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-17 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-03 12:04
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
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