VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-38426

CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL

EPSS probability3.04%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2023-07-18

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-125

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Patch
cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry