Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package linux-aws-6.18 (opens in a new tab)
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- published10 Jan 2026
- disclosed21 Nov 2023
Introduced: 21 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-6238 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Chainguard security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Chainguard:latest.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream linux-aws-6.18 package and not the linux-aws-6.18 package as distributed by Chainguard.
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the NVM Express (NVMe) driver in the Linux kernel. Only privileged user could specify a small meta buffer and let the device perform larger Direct Memory Access (DMA) into the same buffer, overwriting unrelated kernel memory, causing random kernel crashes and memory corruption.