Buffer Overflow Affecting cluster-md-kmp-default package, versions <6.4.0-150600.23.7.3
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES156-CLUSTERMDKMPDEFAULT-7712387
- published 20 Aug 2024
- disclosed 25 Jun 2024
Introduced: 25 Jun 2024
CVE-2023-6238 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.6 cluster-md-kmp-default to version 6.4.0-150600.23.7.3 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cluster-md-kmp-default package and not the cluster-md-kmp-default package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.