CVE-2023-38431

Summary

CVECVE-2023-38431
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-18 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-24 19:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 6.3.8. fs/smb/server/connection.c in ksmbd does not validate the relationship between the NetBIOS header's length field and the SMB header sizes, via pdu_size in ksmbd_conn_handler_loop, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/ChangeLog-6.3.8 MISC cdn.kernel.org
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
July 2023 Linux Kernel 6.3.7 Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199810 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6412-1)
  • 199883 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (NVIDIA) Vulnerabilities (USN-6466-1)
  • 200243 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-6725-1)
  • 907119 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27511-1)
  • 907202 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (27539-1)
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