CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-38429

Off-by-one Error

Published: Jul 18, 2023 | Modified: Dec 22, 2023
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 5.15 (including) 5.15.113 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 5.16 (including) 6.1.30 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 6.2 (including) 6.3.4 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

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