VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-38428

CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL
EPSS probability3.16%
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. fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c in ksmbd does not properly check the UserName value because it does not consider the address of security buffer, leading to an out-of-bounds read.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-125
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-125

Primary references